factory; plant; mill; workshop
to connect; to tie; to fasten; to transfer (phone call)
noshi; long thin strip of dried abalone in folded patterned paper, attached to a gift
cuisine with fresh seafoods
showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay
high (e.g. spirits); merry; high; high (i.e. feeling of extreme pleasure)
card (information, filing, etc.); card (greetings, congratulations, etc.); (Western) playing cards; credit card; debit card; match; game
counter for flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper); (arch.) counter for positions or roles; (arch.) counter for food portions (now only gyōza and soba); counter for ranking level
skating (esp. ice); skate; skates
entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
skateboard; skateboarding
this area; around here; this point; this much; this extent
slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark
my; one's own; personal; privately owned
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
unsatisfied; unsatisfactory; insufficient
hilt (of a sword); haft (of a dagger); handle; handgrip
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not
Americanization; Americanisation
(apportioning) in small amounts
captive; prisoner; victim (of love, etc.); slave (to one's lust, etc.)
H; h; indecent; lewd; (having) sex; nth year in the Heisei era (1989.1.8-2019.4.30)
being once divorced; one-time divorcee; (lit.) one x mark (i.e. one name struck from the family register)
sense of distance (physical or emotional); feeling of distance
floating; drifting; weightlessness; softly; gently; lightly
maintaining a reasonable distance; neutral position; indecision
somewhat near; fairly close
married woman; another's wife
to fall in love; to be in love; to be charmed with; to lose one's heart to
whole (body); full-length (e.g. portrait); systemic
to rise (steeply); to tower; to soar
exhausted; tired; withered; worn out; boiling until shapeless or mushy; tediously
to entwine; to twine around; to coordinate (with); to arrest
yelp; sales campaign; kiang (Equus hemionus kiang); kyang