commercial area; business district
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
load; baggage; cargo; burden; responsibility
progress; pace; carriage; step; stage
bottomless; endlessly deep; infinite
Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny
evasion; avoidance; shirking; recusation (of a judge); taking exception (to a judge); challenge
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)
secret manoeuvres (maneuvers); operating behind the scenes
murder; homicide; manslaughter
to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
to poke one's nose into another's affairs; to have a hand in; to take a (deep) interest in; to poke one's head (into a room)
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
eloquence or flattery designed to deceive
way (of doing); manner; method; means
falling into a doze; dozing off; nodding off
salamander (in mythology); salamander (amphibian of the order Caudata)
eternity; permanence; perpetuity; Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3)
exit (from a stage); exeunt; leaving; exit
the point just before; the point of doing; the verge of happening
to leave word with (a person); to state in one's will; to leave (something) unsaid; to forget to mention
one night; one evening; all night; overnight
to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is)
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
fee; charge; rate; material
to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty
having in mind; happening to know of; idea
to examine someone's expression