load; baggage; cargo; burden; responsibility
to warp; to curve; to arch; to bend backward (body or body part, e.g. fingers)
ordinary person; average person; mediocre person
Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)
jingisukan; grilled mutton and vegetable dish; slotted dome cast iron grill (used for jingisukan)
Shizuoka (city, prefecture)
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
Amur silvergrass (Miscanthus sacchariflorus)
hollow; cavity; sunken place; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) female genitalia
freely; right and left; as one pleases
all over Japan; throughout Japan
encompassing; covering (exhaustively); including (all of); comprising; comprehending
dreadful; terrible; horrible; fearsome; formidable; awesome
universal; omnipresent; ubiquitous
taste; palate; sense of taste
standard; basis; criterion; norm; reference; datum
not quite (right); not very good; somewhat (lacking)
society; company; the public; the world
standard; standardized; average; normal; ordinary
tongue; tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
economic fortune; luck with money
one's fate (fortune) as concerns business
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
one's fate (fortune) as concerns love
synthesis; coordination; putting together; comprehensive
delinquent (youth); delinquency; Yankee
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
sound of footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching