thankfully; fortunately; luckily; thanks to your (his, their, everyone's, etc.) kindness; thanks to your assistance; thanks to your support
gourmet food; delicious food; dining on gourmet food; following a lavish diet; living as an epicure
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
to count on the abacus; to calculate cost-benefit; to calculate profitability; to be guided by self-interest
to blow upon; to breathe on; to pick (a fight); to force (unreasonable terms); to exaggerate; to overcharge
leaving; going home; quitting one's job; free time; leisure
spare time; free time; time (e.g. time it takes to do something); time off; day off; quitting (one's job); firing someone
ghost; specter; spectre; apparition; phantom
extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings; curing illness
ghost; apparition; goblin; monster; something unusually large
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
mischief; prank; pastime; hobby; playing with (a lighter, etc.); fooling around with
Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata); Quercus gilva (species of oak)
branch; bough; limb; twig; sprig; spray
child; small person; dwarf; midget; narrow-minded person; mean person
to chase about; to hang on; to drive hard
invisible; unseen; vague; mysterious; imaginary
being absorbed in; losing oneself in; losing control of oneself
child's mind; childlike innocence; naivete
hostel; dormitory; (arch.) bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) tea-ceremony room; (arch.) villa
memories; recollections; reminiscence
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up
to be about to enter (a bath, etc.)
chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox
to come and stay; to drop in; to visit
staff; member (club, society, etc.)
dependability; credibility; coefficient of confidence
particular; special; exceptional; particularly; especially; exceptionally
conclusive evidence; positive proof; definite proof; confirmation
every evening; night after night
inviolability; nonaggression; sacredness
from afar; over a great distance; all the way
to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)
quantity of heat (e.g. in calories, BTU, etc.); heat value; calorific value; (degree of) enthusiasm; zeal; passion
very; extremely; extreme; excessive; splendid; impressive
in a bad temper; cranky; crabby
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy