town; block; street; road; chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m); chō (unit of land area, approx. 0.99 hectares)
to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); to scatter; to be dispersed; to disappear; to dissolve; to spread
impossible to do (although wants to)
people; (all) persons; everyone; (arch.) you (usu. plural)
one by one; one after another; successively
by no means; never!; certainly (not); surely (not); something unexpected; emergency
(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) badgers of the same hole
silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction
doing (with resolve); carrying out (e.g. a plan)
to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.); to indicate; to show
term; period; time frame; time limit; deadline; cutoff (date)
to have a cramp; to twitch; to stiffen (of a face, expression); to freeze; to shrink (of skin, due to a scar); to tauten
close investigation; careful examination; scrutiny
one day; all day (long); the whole day; first day of the month
material; materials; data; information; documents
restriction; restraint; binding; constraint
postponement; deferment; hesitation; delaying; suspended sentence
somehow (or other); for some reason; without knowing why; something (or other); some ... or other
I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
selfish; self-centred; egotistical
as a matter of fact; actually; effectively; in reality; in effect
green light; (giving) permission; OK
to start to move; to get going; to come alive
present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)
to go down in history; to be recorded in the history books
time around sunset; early evening
just barely; only just; at the very limit; at the last moment
at; in; at; when; by; with
courtyard; quadrangle; middle court
to become tense; to be tightened; to become firm (e.g. body)
in fact; as a matter of fact; actually; in reality; to tell the truth
oracle; revelation; divine message
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
queen (consort); empress (consort)
ceremony; rite; ritual; service
in order; sequential; seriatim