well-informed person; walking dictionary; extensive knowledge
working in the fields; working on a farm
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
to call in; to invite; to bring in
employee (of a store); shop assistant; clerk; salesperson
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
discount; reduction; rebate; tenths discounted; tenths reduced
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
not quite (right); not very good; somewhat (lacking)
advertisement; advertising; announcement; notice
(smelling) strongly; pungently; furiously; indignantly; fuming
to exclude (someone); to shun; to ignore; to leave out; to ostracize
commercial paper; CP; communist party; CP; cerebral palsy; cerebral paralysis; counterpurchase
dirt floor; room with dirt floor; pit (theater seating); parterre
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
contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import
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
continent; continental Asia (esp. mainland China); continental Europe
lifting (a child) high up in the air
and; thereupon; because of that
what is called; what they call; so-called
pattern; design; body build; figure; essential qualities; character
island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
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
to coil about; to follow about; to surround; to cling to
sad; wretched; deplorable
grandfather; male senior-citizen