point worthy of note; highlight; high point; good prospects for the future; promise
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
Tokugawa period (i.e. the Edo period, 1603-1867)
suddenly; abruptly; unexpectedly
grass; weed; (arch.) ninja; not genuine; substandard; LOL
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times
change; transformation; inversion
majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly
compound word; phrase; collocation; copula
sure; certain; reliable; trustworthy; If I'm not mistaken; If I remember correctly
dispensing with the preliminaries ...; omitting the previous part
to fit; to get into; to be fit for (a job, etc.); to be suited for; to fall into; to plunge into
substance; essence; entity; subject; content; reality
seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand
to explain; to solve; to make clear
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...
really; truly; indeed; good grief
unity; consolidation; uniformity; unification; compatible
adverbial (adverb) phrase
notes; comment; remark; annotation
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
feeling; sense; impression
on the contrary; rather; all the more; instead
still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less
anyway; either way; one way or the other; whichever; whatever
especially; particularly; unusually; (arch.) additionally
especially; above all; inter alia; among others
wholly; solely; entirely; principally; mostly; chiefly
at least; at most; (even) just
at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much as possible; as much as one can
wholly (due to); entirely; solely; earnestly; intently; sincerely
above all; especially; particularly; all the more
meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; in contrast
finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
incidentally; taking the opportunity; while (you) are at it; on the occasion
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
nothing; naught; nought; un-; non-
expression in writing; written representation; notation; writing on the surface (e.g. an address on an envelope); inscribing on the face
to hate; to dislike; to loathe
reading-book; reader; guidebook; textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)