advertisement; advertising; announcement; notice
sample; specimen; pattern; model; example
(smelling) strongly; pungently; furiously; indignantly; fuming
to exclude (someone); to shun; to ignore; to leave out; to ostracize
to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
commercial paper; CP; communist party; CP; cerebral palsy; cerebral paralysis; counterpurchase
dirt floor; room with dirt floor; pit (theater seating); parterre
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still
attainment of Buddhahood during life
ascetic monk; trainee monk
closing one's eyes; passing away; dying peacefully
ornament; decorative object; object placed in a tokonoma; figurehead; leader without real power
what do you want?; can I help you?
high; tall; expensive; high-priced; high (level); above average (in degree, quality, etc.)
contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
again; once more; a second time
mind; spirit; attitude; mentality; spirit (of a matter); essence
unity; consolidation; uniformity; unification; compatible
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
(professional) storyteller; hereditary role of narrator in early imperial court
necromancer (esp. a blind female in northeastern Honshu); medium; shaman
spiritualism; spiritism; channeling; medium; channeler
so; like that; that's right; indeed; let me see...
continent; continental Asia (esp. mainland China); continental Europe
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)
lifting (a child) high up in the air
and; thereupon; because of that
stability; steadiness; equilibrium
what is called; what they call; so-called
such ... as; or some such
pattern; design; body build; figure; essential qualities; character
island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to be confused from not knowing what to do
pinioning; binding arms behind the back
happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness
whim; caprice; whimsy; fickle; moody; uneven temper
that much; as much; to that extent; only that; that alone; no more than that
reserve; spare; treasured; valued; (ace) up one's sleeve; trump