peerless; unique; unparalleled; unchallenged
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend
exposure; sensitization; sensitisation
exposure; laying bare; baring (e.g. skin); (photographic) exposure
arranged; taken care of; settled; completed; finished
performance; appearance (in a stage, film, TV show, etc.)
accordion; melodeon; concertina
gun; pistol; tiddlywinks; marbles; repellence
to pull up; to drag up; to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes); to withdraw; to leave; to promote (someone to a higher position)
within; inside of; less than
clumsy; awkward; tactless; awkward (e.g. socially); (arch.) mean; (arch.) cowardly
sen (hundredth of a yen); coin made of non-precious materials; one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of currency); (arch.) one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of mass)
Nandikesvara (Ganesh in the Buddhist pantheon)
bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane
long roofed passageway (originally having an earthen floor and used as a bridle path)
simplicity; convenience; easiness; quasi-
bath; bathing; bathhouse; public bath; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)
measuring container; measure; box (seating at a theatre, etc.); square on a grid; cell of a grid
bat (in baseball, cricket, etc.)
row of houses; every house; each house; all; totally
unevenness; roughness; ruggedness; inequality; imbalance; unevenness
black terracotta; black soil
dirt floor; room with dirt floor; pit (theater seating); parterre
work tabi; split-toed heavy cloth shoes with rubber soles
to tread down so as to harden (soil, snow, etc.)
gloss; luster; mellowness (of a voice); youthfulness (e.g. of skin); interest; appeal
stink; bad odor; bad odour; stench
3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle
beginning; commencement; first (one comes to); approaching; affability; approachability
tatami mat without a "heri" (edge)
large room; green room; waiting room for performers when off stage; junior actor; actor of small parts; large hospital room (for several patients)