bookstore; bookshop; publisher; main building
in accordance with; following; roughly; about; Street; Avenue
street at night; making a night journey
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
one day; all day (long); throughout the day; first day of the month
to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued
because of; owing to; due to
close; intimate; on good terms
awkward (movements, speech, etc.); jerky; stiff; strained (relations); sour
intently; single-mindedly; devotedly; solely; earnestly; with all one's heart
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
guilty (feeling, conscience, look, etc.); (feeling) uneasy
to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest)
front shrine; hall of worship
portable shrine (carried in festivals); palanquin; buttocks; lower back
all that one has; all that there is; the whole
Shinto priest; Shinto priesthood
New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year
to enter; to trespass; to interfere; to meddle; to pry into
grounds (esp. of shrines and temples); compound; churchyard; precincts
water for washing or moistening one's hands
to purify; to cleanse; to exorcise; to purge; to ward off
snugly; neatly; compactly; cosily
rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil
possibly; by some possibility; perhaps
among these; between these; of these; in here; in this
to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.); to indicate; to show
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
to blow through; to blow across
light; illumination; glow; lamp; light
to turn on one's heel; to turn back; to return
trot; half run; jog; girl in charge of menial tasks in a samurai family
awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely
to shine on; to illuminate; to compare (with); to refer to