serialization; serialisation; serial story
very popular; highly favoured
close; intimate; on good terms
oh; oh my; oh dear; well, ...; er ...; why, ...
(Meiji era) official responsible for court ceremonies
chat; desultory conversation
laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)
attendance; presence; appearance
spontaneous discharge; sudden outburst; accidental gun discharge
to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
nuisance to other people; inconvenience to others
(afternoon) nap; sleeping during the day; siesta
trunk; torso; body; body (of an aircraft); fuselage; hull (of a ship)
to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem
whole year; all year round; always; all the time; during an era; second-year kindergarten student
bath; bathing; bathhouse; public bath; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)
chest; breast; breasts; bosom; heart; lungs; stomach
spreading around (news, rumor, etc.); making widely known; making public; publicizing; proclaiming
accurate; precise; exact; appropriate; apt; right
disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
calculation; computation; reckoning; consideration; calculation; estimation
process; course; mechanism
possibility; chance; potential; potentiality; possibility (modal property of a proposition containing no logical contradiction)
holding a dan rank (in martial arts, go, etc.)
curse; divine punishment; wrath (of an angry spirit)
light (i.e. not heavy); feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily); light (i.e. of foot); effortless; non-serious; minor; slight
back off!; leave me alone!
thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; gibe
wise; clever; smart; well-behaved (esp. children and pets); obedient; good
lovey-dovey; head-over-heels in love
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
anniversary of a person's death; monthly return of the date of someone's death
to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do
to change the subject (e.g. away from something awkward or inconvenient)
candidacy; standing as a candidate; bidding (to host an event, e.g. the Olympics)
right (to do something); authority; power
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
sure to ...; certain to ...; bound to ...; it's natural that ...; it's obvious that ...
occurring in succession; doing in succession; firing in rapid succession; volley of shots; volley (of questions, abuse, etc.); stream