culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
civilization; civilisation; culture; Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)
time; season; period; phase; stage
very interesting; of great interest
simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated
flatly rejecting; curtly refusing; beating easily; defeating handily; a kick
corridor; hallway; passageway
to get carried away; to get overly elated; to become over-excited; to get up to speed; to move into gear
idle complaint; grumble; moha (ignorance, folly)
interruption; suspension; break
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
interior; inside; internal
to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to become complicated
to find somebody's weak spot; (lit.) to drill a hole
firing one shot at a time; single-shot gun; having only one engine; single-engined aeroplane; one-shot (e.g. story); non-serial
nonsensical; unreasonable; awfully; extremely; disorder; confusion
out-of-place; inappropriate; sticking out like a sore thumb
to boast of; to be proud of; to take pride in
to be degraded; to come down in the world; to lose status; to be ruined; to fall low
lifeline; matter of life or death; indispensable thing; life line (in palm reading)
mistake; error; accident; mishap; improper conduct (e.g. between man and woman); indiscretion
to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)
to be open (to traffic); to lead to; to flow (liquid, current); to pass; to be understood; to be comprehended; to be honored
to assign; to allot; to allocate; to divide among; to distribute; to prorate
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan
to glide; to slide (e.g. on skis); to fail (an examination); to bomb (when telling a joke); to drop; to go down
to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
material; substance; matter
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
trace; vestige; mark; sign; evidence
to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort
to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)
shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation
wonderful; astounding; marvellous
to take someone's life; to kill someone
all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total
to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to be dismissed; to be fired