announcement flier (e.g. sale at a shop); raffle ticket; lottery ticket; hikifuda (type of playing cards numbered 1-6, used by the bank in tehonbiki); kurifuda
publicity; advertisement; advertising; propaganda
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
ninja; person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan
to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember
Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned
period; time; opportunity; chance; age; term (e.g. in office); session (e.g. of parliament)
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
large ball; giant ball (e.g. as pushed by competing teams in a school sports day)
somersault; looping-the-loop
acrobatics; risky undertaking
art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance
the whole company; the party; attendance (at a gathering); presence; banquet; dinner; troupe
to burn; to be roasted; to be heated; to be jealous; to be envious
vacant land; unoccupied ground; empty lot
decorative curtain hung from the ceiling; tent; pavilion; marquee
tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance; thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
scale; scope; plan; structure
that is to say; so that means
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
show tent; circus tent; freak show
eyeball; special feature; centerpiece; special program; loss leader; sunny-side up fried egg
clairvoyance; second sight; clairvoyant
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
to see without obstruction; to see through; to forecast; to predict; to anticipate
always hitting the bull's-eye; infallible
in the company of; accompanied by ...; as a group comprising ...; likes of ...
show; exhibition; spectacle
to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise
curious; strange; unusual
not caring; not giving a damn
(someone else's) daughter
dangerous; risky; in danger; in jeopardy; uncertain; unreliable
toot (e.g. of trumpet); honk (e.g. of klaxon); beep; farting sound; sound of something being inflated; puff
to become angry or sullen; to take offense; to be miffed; to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
malicious; ill-tempered; unkind
to chide; to rebuke; to reprove
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
to swell (out); to expand; to be inflated; to get cross; to get sulky; to pout
question; inquiry; enquiry