trip by boat; sea trip; voyage; cruise
Akiba; colloquial shortening of Akihabara
bright; intelligent; clever; smart
good policy; wise policy; best plan
your daughter; young woman
beautiful man and woman; handsome couple
set; suit; uniform collection; entirely; all; every one
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
lead; leading; leading (in points, goals, etc.); getting ahead; lead (from a base); lead (of an article); lede
greatest mistake of one's life
ventilation; communication (within an organisation); openness
to overlook; to fail to notice; to miss (seeing)
one's wife; one's wife and daughter or daughters
to wander from place to place; to change jobs
cased; boxed; precious; cherished; girl who has been sheltered from the world; one's special talent
manure; night soil; dung; something that will help one develop in the future
first three days of the New Year (January 1-3)
slightly elevated; slightly higher (of a price); marginally up; edging higher
equinoctial week (when Buddhist services are held); Buddhist services during the equinoctial week; nirvana; opposite bank; opposite shore
to be wide-awake; to be wakeful; to be unable to sleep
going back to sleep; sleeping in
nightclothes; nightwear; sleepwear; pyjamas; pajamas; nightgown
first sunrise of the year; sunrise on New Year's Day
apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but
first shrine visit of the New Year
an order of magnitude higher; off by a digit; in a different league; unbelievable; incomparable; unimaginable
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known
to devote oneself; to do one thing exclusively; to make a job of; to decide to
to achieve enlightenment; to attain enlightenment
New Year's gift (usu. money given to a child by relatives and visitors)
decorative paper envelope for giving New Year's gifts (usu. money given to children) and congratulatory gifts
national (e.g. hero, pastime, consensus); relevant to all citizens; popular on a national level
manure; fertilizer; fertiliser; compost
buzzing (e.g. of insects); chirring; whirring (e.g. of a reel); humming (of electronics); hissing
mountain climbing; mountaineering; ascent of a mountain
going and worshipping (at a shrine or temple); visit (to a shrine or temple to worship)