town; city; municipal; urban
to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up
shape of a pillar or column
elevator; lift; elevator (aviation)
coming and going; traffic; road; street; association; socializing
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
elucidation; explicit statement; specification
upper stratum (classes, stories, storeys); upper layer; layer above
the end; the extremity; the limit; the limits; the result
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
vast; extensive; immense; huge; large; grand
to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one
emigration; immigration; emigrant; immigrant
to write down; to make a note of; to put on record; to chronicle
to kneel down on one knee; to genuflect
carving; engraving; sculpture
variation in color (colour); having a different color
three; three years of age
to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)
news; word; tidings; omen
ear; hearing; edge; crust; selvedge (non-fray machined edge of fabrics); selvage
idol (i.e. carving or painting of a deity)
plants and animals; flora and fauna
unevenness; bumpiness; roughness; imbalance; inequality; unevenness
rainbow-colored; rainbow-coloured
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
some; any; in any way; of some kind; of some sort
presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...
to take the form (of); to assume a shape
exaggerated; overblown; pretentious
emperor (of Japan); mikado
having an audience with someone of very high social standing (e.g. the emperor)
on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred
bamboo screen; rattan blind; bamboo mat (for rolling sushi)
audience (with a superior, e.g. nobility)
form (as opposed to substance); formality; method; system; format; mode
to be present (esp. during a birth); to be witness to