how dare ...; how could ...
unladylike; unbecoming; immodest; unthinkable; impossible; ridiculous
speech; expression; wording; language
battle; fight; fighting; engagement; contest
graceful; ladylike; modest; gentle; polite; quiet
north and south; north to south; South Korea and North Korea
millet or rice cake, roasted and hardened with starch syrup and sugar (sometimes including peanuts, etc.)
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
to make a mess; to perpetrate; to do; to finish up; to be guilty of
long-awaited; long-waited-for; someone who has waited a long time; something that one has waited impatiently for
Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang); provincial office (under the ritsuryo system); provincial capital
Chiba prefecture (Kanto area)
A common name for the area around Akihabara Station in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan, famous for being the centre of modern Japanese popular culture and a major shopping district for video games, anime, manga, electronics and computer-related goods.
sign; indication; omen; symptom
cripple; disabled person; invalid
to end; to be finished; to die; to perish; to do utterly; to do completely
to keep (a person) waiting
diagnosis and treatment; medical care
dreary; bleak; monotonous; tasteless; unrefined
crude; rough; plain; humble; shabby
foreign; imported; outpatient; outpatient care; outpatient clinic
partition; division; settlement of accounts; preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark; directing
ridge (of roof); back of a sword; counter for buildings, apartments, etc.
egg white; white-fleshed fish (e.g. tai, hirame, karei); white meat; sapwood
bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage; bleeding money; red ink; selling below cost
cannot help feeling that; cannot help thinking that
formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff
before one knows it; before one realises; without one's knowledge; without noticing
to dream (i.e. while asleep); to have a dream; to dream (of the future); to have a fleeting experience
sanity; consciousness; soberness
Yumeno Kyuusaku (1889.1.4-1936.3.10)
to bark; to howl; to howl (e.g. of the wind); to roar; to yell; to cry
to watch for an unguarded moment
disposal; abandonment; scrapping; annulment; cancellation; abrogation
every last one; one and all; from A to Z; as soon as; right after; no sooner (than)
lapping (e.g. of waves against the shore); steadily (advancing); gradually (approaching); sufficient (of the amount of liquid needed to cover a submerged object); just enough; (arch.) speedily
smiling; beaming; radiant; bright; cheerful