that's the way it is; such is life
polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade
kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
cover (of a book, magazine, etc.); binding; appearing on the cover of a magazine
middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart
boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
(physical) appearance (of a person); one's face and figure
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
similarly; same (idea); same (name)
one scene; one frame; one shot; one cell; one panel (comic)
entry (on stage); appearance (on screen); entrance; introduction (into a market)
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
healthy; sound; wholesome
life; living; I; me; student
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
as you see; as you can see
to urge; to encourage; to press; to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken
congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present
scene; sight; scenario; setting
to finish reading; to read through
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up
to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind
to be given; to be granted; to be honored with; to give; to bestow; to confer
to wear (formal clothing) in a casual fashion
to blush; to go red in the face; to change color; to change colour
to blurt out; to let slip; to say inadvertently; to come out with (e.g. nonsense)
hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
temptation; allurement; lure; enticement; seduction
dissolute; dissipated; licentious; slovenly; untidy; messy
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
to one's heart's content; as much as one wants; as hard as one can; resolution; decisiveness; determination
scream; shriek; shout; exclamation
to pick up; to find; to gather