very; extremely; extreme; excessive; splendid; impressive
influential; powerful; popular; prosperous; doing well
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
prewar Japanese adventurer (political activist) in mainland China
refugee; exile; displaced persons
pastime; hobby; favorite amusement; dissipation; debauchery; loose living
to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)
to look old; to become musty; to wear out
tenement house; row house
flutter; flap; sound of something light moving in the wind
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on
equipment; harness; fittings
to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric
crude; rough; plain; humble; shabby
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
zori; traditional Japanese thonged sandals
right side; right-hand side
to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)
Japanese style; Japanese fashion
Ryukyu; chain of southwestern Japanese islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture
people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos
clothes; garment; gown; robe; coating (e.g. glaze, batter, icing)
string; cord; man who is financially dependent on a woman; gigolo; restrictions; conditions
stiff and slackless; tense without any looseness; cling tightly; pulled or stretched as far as possible; creaking of a door or oar
five; five years of age; eight o'clock (old time system)
red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
crown; diadem; bottle cap
to decorate gaudily; to overdecorate; to deck out; to embellish
height (of body); stature
to surpass; to outdo; to excel; to tower above (the surrounding landscape)
(sea) voyage; navigation; sailing; passage; cruise
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
motherland; fatherland; native country
to depart (on a plane, train, etc.)
rotation; making the rounds; spreading; effect; efficacy; by way of; via
emerging market; emerging nation; emergent nation; developing country; developing nation
reaching; attaining; arrival
trip by boat; sea trip; voyage; cruise