romance; love story; love affair; romantic relationship; romance
mending; repair; darning; patching up
all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
conquest (of a difficulty, illness, handicap, etc.); overcoming; bringing under control; subjugation; victory over
humanity; civilization; civilisation; culture
department; section; course (of study); branch of study; (taxonomical) family
annihilation; total destruction; complete destruction; crushing defeat
tiger (Panthera tigris); drunkard; drunk; sot
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
being able to do as one pleases; doing at will; pothook
study of foreign languages; linguistics
Taishō era (1912.7.30-1926.12.25); Taisho era
great earthquake (disaster); Great Kanto earthquake of 1923
Shibuya, a special ward in Tokyo
as far as ... is concerned; so far as ... can tell
dead language; extinct language; obsolete word; word that has become passé
instructor; (fencing) teacher; model
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
existence or nonexistence; presence or absence; consent or refusal; yes or no
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
phantom; vision; illusion
to be distracted from feelings of depression, boredom, tension, etc.
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
to do together; to share; to participate in
astounding; tremendous; crazy; exorbitant
once; one time; one round; one game; one bout; one heat
gloomy; dismal; miserable; spirit of yin
to make sense; to be meaningful
standing on formality; in a reserved manner; treating a friend as a stranger; unduly distant; formal
and yet; though; when; in spite of
constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone
sticky; syrupy; weakly (of a flame); gently (e.g. boil); dozing off; napping
(unrefined) brown sugar; muscovado
to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out