depiction; description; portrayal
at the top of one's voice
mud; slush; (wet) dirt; thief
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
trade; business; occupation; profession; job
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
fourth rank; fourth class; fourth sign of the Chinese calendar; Denmark
timothy (Phleum pratense); timothy grass
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
hut; house; boarding house; school dormitory; (arch.) one day's march (approx. 12.2 km)
translation; version (e.g. "English version")
rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor
deadly disease; sickness unto death
social contract theory (e.g. Rousseau's)
origin; beginning; source; rise
argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise
field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness
color of water after washing rice (colour)
compilation (of a text); editing; volume (of a text); completed literary work
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
social life; social intercourse
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times
Ikegami Shun'ichi (1956-)
storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story