July; seventh month of the lunar calendar
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
coincidence; agreement; conformity; consistency; cooperation
plate; dish; serving; helping; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
to stick (to); to cling (to); to stay (e.g. in the office)
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
underpants; pants; briefs; trousers (esp. women's); jodhpurs; breeches
shape; form; appearance; state; situation; suitable
ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream
to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
(a) dose; (a) puff; (a) smoke; lull; short rest
to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up; to follow (hyperlink)
elegant; graceful; refined; leisurely; comfortable; easy
coach (horse-drawn); carriage; wagon; cart
self-abasement; humility; self-depreciation
left and right; right and left; (asserting) control; influence; one's attendants; people accompanying one
to lose; to be defeated; to succumb; to give in; to be inferior to; to break out in a rash due to (e.g. lacquer, shaving, etc.)
fall; sinking; surrender; capitulation
condition; term; requirement; qualification; prerequisite
capitulation; surrender; submission; yield
historic; historical; traditional
timid; weak-kneed; fainthearted; bearish (e.g. market)
to be forestalled; to fall behind; to be one step behind
defeat; lost battle; losing a war
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
gentle; peaceable; amicable; without fuss; simply
pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.
to decorate gaudily; to overdecorate; to deck out; to embellish