Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata
sky; the air; weather; far-off place; distant place; state of mind; feeling
crash; kurash (wrestling)
transfer (trains, buses, etc.); change; switch (to another ideology, party, system, method, etc.); change; switching (stock); chromosomal crossover
please be careful; please take care
vengeance; revenge; retaliation
to miss (a train, bus, etc.); to fail to keep up with (e.g. the times); to be left behind by
boarding (a train, bus, etc.); getting into (e.g. a taxi)
lottery; raffle; drawing (of lots)
hand-me-down; food offering to the gods; leftovers; trip from Kyoto to the provinces
major cleanup; spring cleaning
secret base; hideout; hidden position
large part; greater part; people in general; general public; mostly; for the most part
straight (ahead); direct; upright; straightforward; honest; frank
nonsensical; unreasonable; awfully; extremely; disorder; confusion
to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.); to switch (to a different system, method, etc.); to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)
application; subscription; entry (competition, raffle, etc.); enlistment
to become familiar with; to fit in; to adapt oneself; to get used to; to grow accustomed to
bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)
union; coalescence; amalgamation; copulation; penetration
blue (colour, color); sad; down (in the dumps)
to stick to; to cling to; to adhere to
small dish (usu. one of several accompanying rice); side dish; fill; fill-in (drumming); jack-off material; something to masturbate to
surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)
operation; functioning; running
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)