straightforwardly; readily; without hesitation
joint authorship; co-authorship; collaboration; joint work
night chat; tale told at night; evening tea party (starting around 6pm); book of informal essays
translation; deciphering; decoding; translation
murder; killing; murderer
leader of a delegation (body, party)
samurai on horseback; (medieval) knight
small peninsula; cape; promontory; headland
colour; color; hue; tints
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
beach; seashore; seaside; coast
Norwegian Wood (1987 novel by Haruki Murakami)
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
ramble; saunter; walk; wander; stroll
arts and sciences; liberal arts
Kuwabara Takeo (1904.5.10-1988.4.10)
Yomiuri (newspaper, etc. group); kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper); yomiuri
hard-boiled (person, style, etc.); tough; hard-boiled fiction
literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
new face; newcomer; rookie; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)
department; section; course (of study); branch of study; (taxonomical) family
drama; theatre; theater; play
unevenness (of colour, paint, etc.); irregularity; unevenness (of quality, results, behaviour, etc.); inconsistency; fickleness; capriciousness
to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make
to get (much) colder; to deepen (cold); to feel cold (of the body); to be chilled to the bones; to worsen (of relations, economic conditions, etc.)
to freeze to; to be frozen to; to freeze in place; to be still