female friend; woman friend
to harvest; to reap; to take in; to gather in; to adopt (e.g. idea); to accept (e.g. advice)
lucky omen; happy; auspicious
ghost that appears at sea during a shipwreck; something strange or suspicious; idiot; fool; noh mask for roles involving dead or ghost characters
correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications
purity; homogeneity; unadorned
Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd. (name of a publishing company)
source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
news coverage; collecting data (e.g. for an article); covering (something for media); interview
land east of China; Japan
difficult to obtain; difficult to get
reissue; putting back in print
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
hit (film, song, book, etc.); bestseller; blockbuster
(the art of) storytelling
(period of) a year; during an era
all people; everybody; ten thousand people
writing down what one hears; account of what one hears
to continue to increase; to continue to mount
in bad shape; not doing well; not going well; out of condition; in poor form
eight-tenths; casting someone out; type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up eight-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg
lateness; tardiness; arriving late
annual; yearly; year (e.g. of graduation); nth year (e.g. student); order by year
last week; the week before
(railway) buffer stop; bumper; bumping post
shrill whistling sound; reddening or brightening slightly; rush of blood to the head
to get involved or entangled in; to get mixed up in; to have something to do with; to have dealings with