(doing something) regardless of expense
luminous body (e.g. of a shooting star); bright metal; sliced fish with the silver skin left on (iwashi, aji, sayori, sanma, kohada, etc.); 20-point card; bright
parentless; orphaned; parentless child; orphan
buffer; shock absorber; damper unit
overly optimistic; easygoing; irresponsible; naive; simple-minded
deserted house; ruined house; abolishing one's own family line in order to join another (under pre-1947 Japanese law); extinct family
knothole; peep-hole; bad eyes
to suffer from pulmonary tuberculosis; to have trouble in one's lungs
trying of a crime; conviction; condemnation to death by beheading
to re-cover; to reupholster; to repaper; to renew (e.g. a plaster)
to hit a nerve; to get on one's nerves
smoke screen; dazzler; camouflage; deceptive means; magic; witchcraft
to compete with; to argue with; to quarrel
to establish one's innocence; to prove oneself right; to prove one's identity
to incur someone's enmity
the mere shadow of one's former self; the ruin of what one once was
feeling out of place; feeling that one doesn't belong; not knowing what to do with oneself
dark purple; grape (colour)
very unskillful; extremely awkward
to go to sea; to become a sailor
sycophant; apple-polisher; flatterer; sesame seed grinding
My goodness!; Good lord!; Holy cow!
fish pen; holding pond; fish tank; live well; live-box
to wake up; to rouse out of bed; to knock on the door and wake someone
monopole; singular pole; unipole
experience; being accustomed (to something); poise in a critical situation
to take shape; to look good enough to be shown publicly