convenient; handy; useful
valid; effective; yuko (judo)
exquisiteness; charm; beauty; advantage; profit; gain
forcibly; against one's will
Satou Haruo (1892.4.9-1964.5.6)
admiration; being impressed; admirable; praiseworthy; astonishment; being appalled
beam running between columns in traditional Japanese architecture, esp. within Japanese-style rooms
lapse of memory; (something) slipping one's mind; forgetting for a moment something one knows well
rationality; reasonableness
egg candling; egg testing
complication; confusion; disorder
achievement; attainment; accomplishment; realization
of all things (days, etc.)
Nagano (city, prefecture)
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
to be good (at); to go well; to look (taste, etc.) good; to hold one's liquor; to be able to hold one's drink
actor; actress; player; performer
unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
focus of one's attention; what one is looking for; point of view; viewpoint
article (in document); provision; stripe; streak; although; though
young bird; chick; fledgling; hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that
chamber maid; female servant; area around the hips; waist area
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (arch.) man in attendance (on a person of high standing); (arch.) retainer
to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out
vacant land; unoccupied ground; empty lot
at a loose end; having nothing to do
to be lost in thought; to be immersed in reverie
grace; refinement; elegance; daintiness
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend