to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
turning round; going around; turning about; surrounding; encircling
audience seating; (spectator) stands; auditorium; stadium
to enclose; to surround; to shelter (e.g. a criminal); to shield; to keep (e.g. a mistress); to store (vegetables, fruit, etc.)
All Seats Sold, Thank You; full house; sell-out crowd
watching while standing (e.g. a play)
thousands; several thousand
grace (of God); divine favour; benefit; efficacy
to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that
eagerly (waiting); (waiting) impatiently
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
noisily (e.g. from many people talking); creating a commotion; rustling (leaves); feeling a chill; getting the chills
bell (often a large hanging bell); chime
to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside
torch (made of pine, bamboo, reed, etc.); flambeau; torchlight
mystery; mysteriousness; secret
to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around
quietly; slowly; gracefully
entrance; admission; entering
traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; crown; diadem; top kanji radical; first verse of a haikai, etc.; best; peerless
to make a circle (of a motion, arrangement, etc.); to move (e.g. one's head) in a circle; to form (the shape of) a circle; to draw a circle
to fall to one's knees; to go down on one's knees (e.g. to express respect)
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
transverse flute (e.g. a fife)
string instrument; stringed instrument
chord; "on" reading of a kanji
to play an instrument (esp. string instruments); to dance
comfortable; easy; calm; loose; spacious
action; movements; motions; bearing; behaviour; behavior
to come alive; to get going; to start to move