image; figure; figure; form; image
memory; recollection; remembrance; storage
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie
royal fern (Osmunda japonica); flowering fern; osmund; fiddlehead fern
coloured paper; colored paper
new; fresh; new item (e.g. customer, regulation); newly created object; new customer
application; request; petition
across; over; beyond; throughout (a period of time); for
prefecture (Japan); county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (France); province (Italy, Spain, etc.)
promotion of regional development; encouragement of local development
counter; window; teller window; contact person; point of contact
punctuation; pause; juncture; end; (place to) stop
temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
renewal; update; innovation; improvement
font of purifying water placed at the entrance of a shrine
reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...
wisdom; jnana (higher knowledge)
good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable
nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
difficult to ...; hard to ...
make-up; makeup; cosmetics
indifferent; half-hearted; dispirited; listless
middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years
in tufts; tufty; bushy; thick; luxuriant
to mince; to cut fine; to carve; to engrave; to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to etch (into one's mind)
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
to house; to contain; to carry (a baby); to be pregnant; (arch.) to give lodging to; (arch.) to accommodate
denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like
vacantly; blankly; openmouthed; with one's mouth wide-open; with a whack; with a thump
puffing motion (when blowing, spitting, etc.); pouting (with displeasure)
abrupt; sudden; unexpected