popularity; public favor; condition (e.g. market); tone; character
composition; piece of music; tune; melody; enjoyment; fun
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
surmise (about somebody's feelings); guess; conjecture
discord; disharmony; false note; being out of tune
Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned
sense of rhythm; rhythmical sense
nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all
sense of sound; sense of pitch
quite; entirely; completely; as if; as though; just like
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
to go past; to pass; to pass by
to go by; to go past; to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to go indoors; to go into a room; to penetrate
to pester someone (e.g. to buy something)
exchange; interchange; switching; reciprocity; barter; substitution
to be sensible; to be smart; to be tasteful; to be thoughtful; to be tactful; to be sensitive
unexpectedly; surprisingly
exceedingly; extremely; decisively
to accept (e.g. an explanation); to be satisfied (with); to assent (to)
what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels
primordial; fundamental; basic; primitive
to dwell; to live; to stay at; to take shelter at; to be pregnant; to be part of a constellation
to be off-pitch; to be off-key; to be out of tune
solitude; loneliness; isolation
beyond; across; the other side; the distance
to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
negligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness
night owl; nighthawk; late bird; to stay up late; to keep late hours
false; pseudo-; quasi-; would-be; sham; pretended
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)
to bear; to stand; to restrain; to control; to forgive; to put up with
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")