intimacy; affection; familiarity
headquarters; head office; main office
plane tree (esp. the Oriental plane, Platanus orientalis)
bank; banking institution
to furnish; to install; to get someone's agreement; to patronize; to buy usually from the same store
jostling; milling about; crush; packed with (activities, products, etc.); teeming with; chock-full of
to be in confusion or commotion; to be in a turmoil; to be crowded or jammed with people
dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)
dreary; bleak; monotonous; tasteless; unrefined
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
to draw through one's hand; to stroke (e.g. a beard); to work someone hard; to masturbate
diploma; licence; license
many; much; plenty; hardly
katsura (Cercidiphyllum japonicum); Japanese Judas tree
to give; to do (something) for
pawn (chess piece); boing; sproing (e.g. sound of releasing a spring); flipping through the air; tossing
to give by tossing or throwing
difficult to ...; hard to ...
tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping); perfectly (suited)
to go past (a place or thing); to go beyond
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
swiftly; rapidly; suddenly; abruptly; sharply (of a slope, bend, etc.); steeply
walking briskly; determinedly
not a little; not a few; considerable
to watch over; to watch attentively
to bend backwards; to bend oneself back; to be taken aback
maiko; apprentice geisha; dancing girl
in the same way as; just like
beautiful stretch of sandy beach dotted with pine trees; (lit.) white sand, green pines
splendor; splendour; superb view
tunnel; to tunnel (through a potential barrier); letting a grounder go through one's legs
superb view; picturesque scenery