fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
accurate; correct; precise; exact
(way of) life; lifestyle; living; life circumstances; livelihood; day-to-day life
to desire; to want; to expect (of someone); to hope for; to see; to command (a view of)
preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)
camouflage; disguise; pretense; feigning; masquerade
cheerful; merry; sunny; bright (sky, day, etc.); fine; clear
to show; to display; to make (something or someone) look ...; to present an appearance of ...; to make (something) worth watching; to be entertaining; to have (something) looked at (by a specialist)
reveal of how a trick is done; disclosure of a secret (cause, source, etc.); exposure; explanation
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; confusion
by myself; in person; by oneself
pleasant; delightful; enjoyable; joyful; cheerful; amusing
to take off one's glasses
contour; outline; summary; outline; looks; features
to warp; to bend; to contort; to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted
to dash against (of waves); to billow; to roll; to wave (e.g. in the wind); to heave; to pound (of a heart)
different person; another person; someone else; changed man
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
serviceman; servicewoman; soldier; member of the armed forces; military personnel
manner; way; appearance; air; custom; convention; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to cut and even up; to cut several pieces to the same size
tall figure; high stature
remodeling; remodelling; reconstruction; modding
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
deep (hole, forest, snow, etc.); dense (e.g. fog); thick (e.g. weeds, woods); close (e.g. relationship); deep (involvement); intense (e.g. longing, flavor); severe
slit; slitting (slicing a sheet of paper, metal, etc. into narrower strips)
to weave in (a pattern, colour, material, etc.)
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
ninja; person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan
to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol
cosplay (dressing up as a character from an anime, manga, video game, etc.)
the person in question; the person themselves; said person
deadly serious; deadly earnest
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
woman; female; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
(medieval) knight; samurai on horseback
magic; sorcery; wizardry; magic (illusion); conjuring
presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...