the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
March; third month of the lunar calendar
AD; Anno Domini; assistant director (movie, etc.)
inspiration; afflatus; ability to sense the supernatural (esp. ghosts, etc.)
female high-school student
to follow another's example
Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny
bad; poor; inferior; delinquent; hoodlum; hooligan
storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story
liquid; liquid hair product
the first and second; a few
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration
one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission
residing; living; dwelling
Tokyo Metropolis (prefecture); Tokyo metropolitan area
Yamaguchi prefecture (Chūgoku area)
the way there; outbound leg; bound for ...; outbound ticket
unevenness (of colour, paint, etc.); irregularity; unevenness (of quality, results, behaviour, etc.); inconsistency; fickleness; capriciousness
height; stature; length (esp. of clothing); all (one has); everything; magnificence (of a waka poem, etc.)
digestion (of food); digestion (of information); assimilation; consumption; absorption; (arch.) losing one's form and turning into something else
completely ordinary; plain; commonplace; everyday
donation; presentation; gift
to be profitable; to yield a profit
to insert; to put in; to send in (to a prisoner; e.g. clothes, books); to deliver (food, refreshments, etc. to workers); to supply
unripe; green; inexperienced; immature; unskilled
to live; to reside; to inhabit
artistic taste; aptitude for painting; ability to appreciate art; desire to paint
to lay bare; to expose; to reveal
just above; right overhead
to move (house); to change residence
to shift one's attention to; to shift one's focus on
claim (for compensation); customer complaint seeking compensation; (general) complaint; objection
grand; magnificent; lavish; forceful; powerful; vigorous
hermit crab; renting a house; tenant
container; case; receptacle; coffin; casket
response (felt in the hands); resistance; reaction; response; effect
to drink oneself dead drunk; to drink oneself unconscious
drunkenness; intoxication; motion sickness; travel sickness
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)