long (time); protracted; prolonged
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
to get tired of; to lose interest in; to be fed up with; to have enough
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time
for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; because of; as a result of
prolific (writer, artist, etc.); productive; producing many works; writing prolifically
the rest; the others; in addition (to that); besides that; and so forth; and the like
to be too numerous; to be too much
someone (unspecified, but someone in particular); a certain person
order (for an item); request; demand; condition
depending on; dependent on
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
memory; recollection; remembrance; storage
end of the year or season; year end
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
one night; one evening; all night; overnight
paper lantern; Chinese lantern; Japanese lantern
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
one portion; one serving; adult; grown-up; fully fledged; established
craftsman; artisan; tradesman; worker; workman
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
fecundity; having many children; abundant production
to explain adequately; to be accountable
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
(I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); (I) fancy (that)
a kind; a sort; of sorts; something of a; sort of; somewhat
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
(some type of) enthusiast; somebody possessed of a (certain kind of) mental abnormality
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
depression; low spirits; luxuriant (of vegetation)
mental illness; psychosis
all year round; all the time; year in and year out