shade; tone; tinge; hue; colour; color
reality; actuality; actual conditions; ultimate reality; absolute truth
vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology
poor; meagre; meager; feeble; scanty; shabby
deep red; crimson; rouge; lipstick
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
acquaintance; making someone's acquaintance
glad countenance; joyful look
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
unique; individual; original; unusual
excellent article; fine item; rare beauty; masterpiece; gem
to base something on; to make something the basis
pop; signage; display; billboard (as used to decorate arcade games)
showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay
excess or deficiency; too much or too little
cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat
falling cherry blossoms; storm of falling cherry blossoms
to do for real; to do in real life; to carry (a story) into actual practice
unpleasant; disagreeable; nasty; lewd; lascivious; obscene
calm; composed; leisurely
work of art; artwork; objet d'art
lighting up; illumination; floodlighting
hustle and bustle; throng; crowd; congestion; traffic jam
candy; sweet; confectionary
to the best of one's meager ability; the little help one can be; though my help might not be worth much
guide; tour guide; conductor; guidebook
small hill; low hill; hillock
halfway up (down) a mountain; mountainside
football pitch; soccer field
grounds (esp. of shrines and temples); compound; churchyard; precincts
target practice; marksmanship; target shooting (e.g. at a fair)
festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle
cotton candy; fairy floss; candy floss
to make a display of one's originality (eccentricity); to deliberately act oddly (e.g. to get attention)