field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness
to lose one's way; to get lost; to waver; to hesitate; to give into temptation; to lose control of oneself
to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
society; the world; the times
Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
footprints; record of page visitors (e.g. in social networking sites)
village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
to approach; to draw near
casual; unconcerned; nonchalant
to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize
to lower one's voice; to speak with a hushed voice
(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style
when; how soon; how long until
to cease; to stop; to be over
to mutter; to murmur; to grumble; to tweet (Twitter)
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
to leave (behind); to leave (undone); to not finish; to save; to set aside; to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death)
to erase; to delete; to turn off (power); to switch off; to extinguish; to put out
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
noon; midday; daytime; lunch
to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on
third stage; three stages
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
hurried construction; hurried production; hasty manufacture; hasty formation
frequent; continual; constant; great; intense; strong
to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside
to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to
no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it
alternation; change; relief; relay; shift; substitution (sports, etc.)
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
nicely; properly; frequently; often; I'm glad that you ...; thank you for ...