Takahashi Issei (1980.12.9-)
vast; extensive; immense; huge; large; grand
Yamamoto Fujiko (1931.12-)
belvedere fruit; field caviar; land caviar; mountain caviar; kochia seed
to get late; to advance; to wear on
Sañjīva (one of the Eight Greater Hells); hell of being torn to pieces and revived over and over
chicken grunt (Parapristipoma trilineatum); threeline grunt
person unfit for society; misfit
word of recent origin; neologism; recent word; modern term
opening of a banquet; opening of a wedding reception
signed; sealed; having a signature or seal
instantaneous wind speed; instantaneous wind velocity
stiff shoulders (usu. owing to age); frozen shoulder
foot towel; cloth for wiping the bottoms of one's feet
the five skandhas (matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness); the five aggregates
bad poem; my humble poem; stooped over (e.g. old people); bowed; stalling; having a relapse
friend request (e.g. on a social network)
shoulder pain (at about age forty)
scattering of ashes (cremated remains)
irregular employment; atypical employment
changing (one's job, loyalties, stance, etc.); switching over; changing quarters (geisha, prostitute, etc.)
standing while holding onto something (infant, toddler)
working consecutive days (without a holiday)
present form; present tense
to be nauseating; to be disgusting; to be revolting; to throw up; to vomit
to come for the first time; to become for the first time
doctor working in a hospital; physician working in public practice
purse; wallet; billfold; cashbox; till
misedashi; debut of an apprentice geisha; ceremony in which a shikomi becomes a maiko
eschatology; doomsday theory; apocalypticism
traditional Japanese handball game
notarized document; notarised document
to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of
period of poor employment opportunities; job drought; (lit.) employment ice age
failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later