to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
rise; swell; elevation; upsurge
tough; stubborn; determined; severely; heavily; hard
sound; noise; acoustics; reverberation; echo; audio
to go against; to fight against; to oppose; to resist; to deny
indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive
song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry
mood; sentiment; artistic effect
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
expression; presentation; representation; notation
by myself; in person; by oneself
to be pleased; to gloat; to glow with self-satisfaction
close adhesion; sticking firmly to; relating closely to; having relevance to; contact printing
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
to close (e.g. book, eyes, meeting, etc.); to shut
inattention; absent-mindedness
tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well
to be filled with strength; to be filled with effort; to be enthusiastic about; to be tired (ironic)
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
to fail; to blunder; to make a mess; to drink up; to eat up
tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance; thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
to catch sight of; to come into view; to happen to see
to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on
to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death
to have one's attention attracted (caught); to be preoccupied with
monopoly; monopolization; exclusivity; hogging; keeping to oneself
to manage (all by oneself); to control; to run; to take charge of
Yagiri No Watashi (ferry that has been taking passengers across the Edo river for nearly 400 years)
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
one's favourite party trick (favorite); one's specialty; No. 18; eighteenth; repertoire of 18 kabuki plays
singing contest; person proud of their voice
bell (often a large hanging bell); chime
to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist