Murou Saisei (1889.8.1-1962.3.26)
addition; adding up; integration; estimate; quantity survey
water's edge; beach; foreshore
Nakahara Chuuya (1907-1937)
dosa (ill will, antipathy)
silver (Ag); silver coin; money; silver medal; silver colour; silver color
Le petit prince (by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry); The Little Prince
legal guardians' association; parents' association (at a school); parent-teacher's meeting
person of importance; a somebody; absolutely; certainly; to be sure
third year of high school; third-year high-school student
Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933)
with a fixed time; with a deadline
self-conceit; self-satisfaction; self-righteousness; self-importance; complacency
single (i.e. unmarried) person; someone alone
failure; rejection; rupture
raising (a question); bringing up (a problem); instituting (a lawsuit); (arch.) lifting up
ice cream; flavoured ice; sherbet
thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters)
reading matter; reading material
unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice
articulation; speaking one's lines smoothly; reciting one's lines well
reconciliation (with one's spouse, adopted child, etc.)
voice training; vocal exercises
school district; school area
reading aloud; reading a kanji by its Chinese-derived pronunciation
to have a family (e.g. wife or husband and children); to raise a family
holding a ceremony; wedding ceremony
how many months?; how long?
to be badly made; to fail
poetry anthology; collection of poems; collected poems
very thin; flimsy; cheap; shallow
doer; performer; protagonist (in noh or kyogen); hero; speculator (in trading)