pure heart; naivete; innocence
aviation; flight; flying; to fly; to take a flight
style; way; shape; form; appearance; state
fine weather (i.e. little or no clouds); fair weather; clear weather; clear sky; fair skies
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
monthly publication; monthly issue
twenty-ninth day of the month; twenty-nine days
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook
written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll); a text written entirely in kana; graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries); notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.); rough draft
most important work (of a writer, artist, etc.); representative work; masterpiece
genuine; real; full-scale; full-blown; full-fledged; professional
debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh
publication (e.g. of an article in a newspaper); carrying (e.g. a story); running (e.g. a serial); insertion (e.g. of an advertisement); printing; posting (e.g. on the web)
writing (e.g. as a profession)
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
refinement; elegance; grace
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
type B (blood, influenza, hepatitis, etc.)
Libra (constellation); the Scales
birth; birthplace; born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
first day of the month; (arch.) first ten days of the lunar month
October; tenth month of the lunar calendar
life; living; I; me; student
matchless; unequalled; unequaled
(fictional) character; character; personality; persona
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other
to count on one's fingers
the seven treasures (gold, silver, pearls, agate, crystal, coral, lapis lazuli); cloisonne ware; shippō pattern (of overlapping circles); shippō emblem
small-format paperback book; pocket paperback
quantitative; concerning the quantity