black ground; black cloth
saber (cavalry sword); sabre
stern; grave; austere; strict (e.g. security); severe; firm
look here; I say; well; I know what; I'll tell you what; just a minute
close friend; bosom friend; buddy; crony; chum
treachery; betrayal; perfidy
to get goosebumps; to have gooseflesh
criticism; judgement; judgment; comment
slaughter (of animals for meat); butchery
henry (unit of inductance)
cheating (on one's husband); adultery; male lover (of a married woman); paramour
empress (consort); queen (consort)
chastity; virtue; fidelity; feminine modesty
emperor (of Japan); mikado
king; queen; monarch; the Crown (as a focus of authority in the UK, etc.); the throne
innocence; guiltlessness; absence of the fact; insubstantiality; (arch.) insincerity; (arch.) dishonesty
if you think about it; come to think of it
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
to be seething (with anger); to be frenzied; to be menacing; to be murderous
moving about in confusion; going every which way; going this way and that
not the time for; not the place for; far from; far more than; nowhere near just; well beyond
to soak into; to sink into; to seep into; to sink into (one's mind); to be (deeply) ingrained; to be instilled
to compare; to make a comparison (between); to compete (on); to measure (one's strength, ability, etc. against another's)
traditional married woman's hair style with an oval chignon on top; type of men's hairstyle during the Edo period
pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure
to do up (hair); to dress; to arrange; to tie; to bind; to fasten
bonnet; (car) hood; bonnet (hat)
ugly; unattractive; bad-looking; unsightly; unseemly; disgraceful
to follow with one's gaze; to follow with the eyes
Metropolitan Police Department (Tokyo)
bridge (road, railway, ship, etc.); (contact) bridge; Seven Bridge (Japanese rummy game); bridge; bridge (of a pair of glasses); bridge (in wrestling); bridge (circuit)
upper stream; upper course; upstream; upper classes
Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral
solemn; sublime; grand; magnificent; impressive
to push (something) out; to jut out (can have a negative nuance); to protrude; to rise out the trap door (on stage)