wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved
symbol; code; sign; notation
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
to surround; to encircle; to enclose
dislike; disgust; disinclination; tired of
to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up; to follow (hyperlink)
Tokyo Metropolis (prefecture); Tokyo metropolitan area
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
ward; borough; city (in Tokyo); district (e.g. electoral); section; zone (e.g. postal)
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
underground train; subway
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
shopping district; shopping street; downtown
to close (one's eyes); to shut
secondhand bookshop; antiquarian bookshop
to close down a business; to shut a business
being open but having virtually no business
to interfere (with); to hinder; to be hindered (from doing); to become impeded; to have difficulty; to suffer inconvenience
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume
fashion (current) of the times; general drift of affairs
spirit; psyche; god; deity; divinity
town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares
to live; to make a living; to get on with
family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade
reopening; resumption; restarting
arriving at the present; present-day; to arrive at the present day
district of a town; city block (of irregular size)
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively
Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned
shop; small store; business; firm
fresh in one's mind; fresh in one's memory
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
Gothic (style); Gothic (typeface)
aroma; fragrance; scent; smell
to drift; to float; to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); to wander; to walk around aimlessly