to hold a person back; to restrain; to catch in one's arms
for two people's eyes to meet; catching someone's eye; making eye contact; meeting a person's gaze
to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to
to destroy; to crush; to break by striking; to spoil; to ruin
to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart
perhaps; possibly; maybe; if; in case; in the event that
formal marriage interview; marriage meeting
to cherish; to treasure; to prize; to take good care of; to look after
passion; enthusiasm; zeal
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
to be crowded with people; to be bustling with; to prosper; to flourish; to do thriving business
kagami mochi; New Year offering consisting of two mochi stacked on each other with a bitter orange on top, cut and eaten on January 11
New Year's pine decoration
one's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation
congestion; crush; crowding; confusion; disorder
large crowd; mass of people
tightly packed; full to capacity; jam-packed
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
surging crowd; wave of humanity; stampede
to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be stumped; to be nonplussed; to wince; to shrink back
here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
gradually (progress into a state); in sequence; in order; in turn
elevation (of spirits); raising (of morale); uplift; upsurge
supermarket; subtitles; telop; superheterodyne; super
from one's side; from the side (of something); from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved
dispersing; breaking up; running away
too much; excessively; too
side road; byroad; digression (e.g. from argument)
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
escape; break-out; prolapse; proptosis
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.