looks; features; (personal) appearance
to compare; to make a comparison (between); to compete (on); to measure (one's strength, ability, etc. against another's)
lifelike life-sized doll (made in the late Edo and Meiji periods); doll-like beauty
liking; being fond of; to one's liking; to one's taste; preferred; favourite
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive
downy hair; down; vellus hair; lanugo
to excite; to incite; to stimulate; to arouse; to tempt; to stir up
to tease; to irritate; to tantalize; to keep (someone) in suspense
being startled; getting a shock
somehow; for some reason; in some way; vaguely
stuffed specimen; taxidermy mount; stuffing; mounting
in that way; like that; that way
eternity; permanence; perpetuity; Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3)
preservation; conservation; storage; save (to storage)
invention; intelligent; clever; smart
plan; device; idea; design; contrivance; conception
trial product; prototype model
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade
soul; spirit; willpower; vitality; something as important as one's own life; something invaluable
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality
eloquence; fluency (of speech)
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
(opening a door) with a clatter; noisily; (falling) with a clatter; with a crash; (changing) completely; totally
metal rod; metal bar; iron rod; iron club; iron staff with rings on top (traditionally used by night watchmen)
lion; left-hand (stone) guardian lion-dog at a Shinto shrine
tiger (Panthera tigris); drunkard; drunk; sot
electricity; (electric) light
movie (film, screen) actor or actress
... years old; age (of) ...
water's edge; waterside; shore; before coming ashore; before entering the country; (at the) border
handsome young man; Adonis
refreshingly; with a feeling of relief; shapely; neatly; cleanly; without trouble; clearly
symmetry; balance; proportion; uniformity
wild beast; wild animal; brute
to tear off; to pluck; to scratch off
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook