knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
by all means; no matter what; at any rate
sense of sound; sense of pitch
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
area; vicinity; side; edge; circumstances
household; home; family; housekeeping
great god; gracious deity; miracle-working god
origin; beginning; variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; tip; extremity
near; close; beside; third person
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
snugly; cosily; compactly
Okayama (city, prefecture)
back country; remote countryside
true Tokyoite; Edoite; person born and raised in Edo
this (very thing); this precisely
nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
being fond of; having a liking for; to the liking of; favored by; popular with
to peek (through a keyhole, gap, etc.); to look down into (a ravine, etc.); to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.); to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at; to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.); to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.)
copper (Cu); bronze (medal)
hu (ancient Chinese vessel shaped like a vase, usually used to store alcohol)
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
to polish; to shine; to brush (e.g. teeth); to refine (e.g. a skill); to improve; to cultivate
hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds); place near the mountains
entertainment hall (for rakugo, manzai, magic, music, etc.); vaudeville theater (theatre); music hall
ukiyo-e; ukiyoe; Edo-period woodblock print
dwelling; house; residence; address
certain amount; some; certain person; Mr So-and-so; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
actual existence; real existence; existing in real life
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
Records of the Three Kingdoms; Annals of the Three Kingdoms
making (book, etc.) into film; making a screen version; adapting for the screen
advance screening; preview; private showing; trade show
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
waiting room; anteroom; antechamber; green room
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose