crisp; staccato; piquant; clear
to stand watch; to stand guard; to look out; to open (one's eyes) wide
just cause; good reason; pretext; duty (to one's country, sovereign, etc.)
counter for chairs or seats; foot; leg
wafer cake filled with bean jam; (in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of
call; summons; call; invocation; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)
cunning and experienced in the ways of the world; crafty and worldly-wise; sly old (fox)
valuable (object); negotiable (instrument)
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
(informal) discussion; talk; (formal and tedious) talk; lecture; admonition; reprimand
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
each place; various places
to frolic about; to mess around
to lie on top of each other; to overlap; to pile up
tornado; whirlwind; waterspout; twister
addressing (someone) without using a suffix such as "-san" or "-chan" (considered impolite)
party-internal; within the party
charming; fascinating; enchanting; bewitching; beguiling; captivating
incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; mysterious; meaningless
lack of words; being tongue-tied; suppressing what you want to say
to well up (of tears, anger, joy, etc.); to surge up (within oneself); to rise; to fill one's heart; to overcome one
writing horizontally; horizontal writing
mizu yōkan; soft adzuki-bean jelly
to project; to overhang; to stick out; to put up (a notice); to post
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (of China; 9-23 CE)
transcendence; excellence; superiority; super; extremely; awfully
kanreki; one's 60th birthday (or 61st in the traditional age reckoning system) when one has lived through a full sexagenary cycle
unsociable; unfriendly; blunt; surly; curt; cold
spirit of a true craftsman; artisan spirit; pride in one's craft
inspection (e.g. customs, factory); examination; test; check; scan (e.g. MRI, PET); audit
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
just when (one is about to ...); just as; the very moment when; on the point of
to escape from; to get out
Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil); picotee morning glory; funnel-shaped object; bell (e.g. of a trumpet); (arch.) rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)
that's true; of course; obviously
the East; the Orient; (East) Asia; Japan
divining sticks; counting; calculation