mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae); Asarum caulescens (species of wild ginger); hollyhock
nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web
evening glow; red sunset; afterglow (of sunset)
group; party; team; squad; section
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
waterfall; (arch.) rapids
newsprint; newspaper used for wrapping, packing, etc.; newspaper
club; fraternity; sorority; clubhouse
all sorts of; all kinds of
Kadokawa Shoten (publisher)
tortoise; turtle; heavy drinker; turtle crest; turtle mon
rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)
to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to be compensated; to make up for one's losses
Yomiuri (newspaper, etc. group); kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper); yomiuri
selection (e.g. of poems, texts); anthology; selected extracts
onnagata; male actor in female kabuki roles; female partner (in a relationship)
deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid
contemporary novel; modern novel
matchmaking; acting as a go-between
rather; better; instead; if anything
eldest daughter; first-born daughter
Nakamura Mitsuo (1911.2.5-1988.7.12)
chapter one; first chapter
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
course (e.g. of lectures); academic university unit (professor, lecturers, etc.)
reading-book; reader; guidebook; textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)
guy; fellow; chap; bastard; asshole; arsehole
actor; actress; player; performer
versification; verse making
self-; from ...; this ... (in contrast to some other ...); aforementioned
little less than; slightly fewer than; just under; weakness; the weak
Buddhist priest; bonze; layman dressed like a priest; person
1,000,000; one million; million; many
rice cracker; senbei; Japanese cracker; rice cookie; wafer