shame; embarrassment; disgrace
to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
there is no way that ...; easy; simple
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
the rise of the curtain; opening (of play); beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)
difficult to ...; hard to ...
certainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons
pillow; bolster; introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story); lead-in
to weigh on one's mind; to bother one; to be interested (in); to be curious (about); to feel like (doing); to feel inclined to
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism
to enclose; to surround; to shelter (e.g. a criminal); to shield; to keep (e.g. a mistress); to store (vegetables, fruit, etc.)
to draw (a thread); to let out (e.g. a rope); to head out as a group; to set out in large numbers; to send out one after another; to dispatch
signature move (assoc. with a martial artist, wrestler, etc.); finishing move
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
patron (of the arts, an artist, etc.); patroness; sugar daddy; man who provides for a woman (e.g. a geisha); patron; master
of great promise; with a promising future
good prospects; full of hope; promising
Sukhavati (Amitabha's Pure Land); paradise; heaven on earth
far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
promotion (school, military, etc.)
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)
wasteful; a waste; too good; more than one deserves; impious; profane
(not so) much; (not) very
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
lingering attachment; lingering affection; regret; reluctance; ruefulness
to that extent; to that degree; so much; so
practice; training; drill; (an) exercise; workout
to draw through one's hand; to stroke (e.g. a beard); to work someone hard; to masturbate
to rush out from one's mouth (words, phrases, etc.)
mini-; miniskirt; mini-skirt