railroad; railway; rail transport
manuscript; copy; draft; notes; contribution
after death; posthumously
to groan; to moan; to roar; to howl; to hum (engine, wind, etc.); to buzz; to ooh and aah (in admiration)
revising (e.g. manuscript); rewriting; revised manuscript
dispute; controversy; debate; argument; taking issue
(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all
to blush; to go red in the face; to change color; to change colour
retailing; repeating (someone else's words, opinion, etc.); parroting; echoing
to rise; to swell; to be promoted
to search for; to seek for; to look for
subscriber; reader; admirer
Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned
(within) the (Tokyo) metropolitan area
smoothly; easily; readily
core; heart (of the matter); point; crux; kernel
lightweight fabric or clothing; silk gauze; thin silk; Latin (language)
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
loss of strength; exhaustion; weakness
misprint; typographical error; typo
ownership mark or stamp; bookplate
frame; framework; border; box; limit; restriction; category
to emit a voice; to emit a sound; to be able to speak
to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death); to bequeath
Iwanami Shoten, Publishers (publisher)
other; another; over; more than; I; me
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)
as if (something untrue were actually true); like hell (e.g. "like hell I will")
among these; between these; of these
mankind; the human creature; fellow creatures
sense; sensation; feeling; intuition
to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple