to project; to show; to portray; to depict; to describe
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
to project; to reflect; to cast (shadow)
to drive away; to clear; to scatter; to disperse
to often be the case; to occur frequently; to be common; to be popular
worthy of special mention
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
to see through (a plot, lie, etc.); to penetrate into; to discover; to find out
one's chance; the right time; target; objective
to be buried; to be covered; to overflow; to be crowded; to be repaid (e.g. debt); to be replenished
siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement
virtual image; false image; pretense; pretence
decoy (for hunting); stool; lure; decoy; stool pigeon
one direction; unidirectional; non-interactive
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting; overcoming; exceeding; passing
firing; shooting; fire; gunshot; marksmanship
accurate; correct; precise; exact
absolutely every little bit; everything from A to Z; systematically; thoroughly; one after another
the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; as soon as; whether or not
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
falling with a splat; oozing; dripping
terminal; computer terminal; information access device (smartphone, tablet, book-reader, etc.); end (e.g. of a roll of film)
familiar (spirit or otherwise magical creature which aids a magician or sorcerer); familiar spirit
to lurk; to be hidden; to be concealed; to lie dormant; to be latent
specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
point; gist; essentials; knack; trick; the ropes
each individual; each person
adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
undergrowth; weeds beneath a tree
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
to drop like a rock (e.g. of reputation, power, influence); to go down the toilet
next; hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence); order; sequence
counter for parts, stages, installments, etc. (of a story, series, project, campaign, etc.); counter for bullets
harvest; crop; ingathering; fruits (of one's labors); gain; result
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
material; material properties; quality of material; quality of wood; quality of lumber
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air