patching (up); cutting a part and pasting a new one (e.g. a shoji door); cut and paste
greens; vegetables; rape (Brassica napus); rapeseed
gold (Au); golden (color); valuable; of highest value; money; gold coin; Friday
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
yen (Japanese monetary unit); circle
threat; menace; coercion; terrorism
horizontal script (esp. of a European language); European writing; Roman letters; European language; Western language
course; route; path; process; means
door (Western-style, car, etc.)
to get between; to be caught in
letter; note; epistle; correspondence
opening (a letter, parcel, etc.); breaking the seal; unboxing (a product); unsealed mail
not in one's recollection; having no recollection (of); having no memory (of)
omission; slip; error; definition (of photograph); sharpness; clarity (sound)
to be photographed; to be projected
real thing; original; actual
to become angry or sullen; to take offense; to be miffed; to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay
ending; conclusion; join; union; knot; knotting
selling on the market (in the marketplace, in stores, etc.); making something commercially available; commercial (e.g. software); over-the-counter; off-the-shelf
to cut out; to clip from; to extract
little more than; only slightly better than; almost the same as
dōjinshi; magazine published by like-minded people; fanzine; zine
to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to set free; to release; to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)
waste; scrap; garbage; scum; piece of trash; loser
kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; kabuki play; kabuki performance; make-believe; ruse
to think of; to come up with
contingency; fortuity; randomness; unpredictability; haphazardry
a matter for the police; a brush with the law
no matter what; whatever you say; in the end; after all
to expose to danger; to imperil; to jeopardize
either way; in any case; one way or another
precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed
to give directions; to issue instructions
to apply pressure (on); to bring pressure upon; to lean on
end; tip; extremities; terminal
investigator (usu. of criminal cases)
(not) anyone; (not) a single person; no one; nobody
human relations; personal relationships
influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne