to cherish; to treasure; to prize; to take good care of; to look after
whistling (wind); blowing; fluttering (in the wind); waving; staggering; tottering
to hit a nerve; to go for the throat; to touch a sore spot
devastating; catastrophic; crushing
definite; final; decisive; conclusive
acquaintance; relations; sexual intercourse; intersection
nature; spontaneity; natural airhead
all pain, no gain; doing no good and a lot of harm; having no redeeming features; being a complete disadvantage; (lit.) a hundred harms and not a single gain
to bother; to meddle; to poke one's nose (into another's business); to be too helpful
profit-and-loss arithmetic; calculating profit and loss; mercenary point of view
circumstances; condition; to arrange; to manage; to lend money; to raise money
degree; extent; (health) condition; state of health; adjustment; moderation; addition and subtraction
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
leaving out; omitting; skipping; (beating) in succession; in a row
reaffirmation; reconfirmation; revalidation
Hokuriku region of Honshu (incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)
folk tale; folktale; folk story; folklore
maniac (as in rabid sport fan); enthusiast
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
copying in entirety (verbatim)
failed student; student required to repeat a year
offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)
to lean over (someone); to bend over; to lean on; to weigh on one; to bear (heavily) on one; to lie on one
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
Toyama (city, prefecture)
birth; birthplace; born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
focus of one's attention; what one is looking for; viewpoint; point one is trying to make
calm; composed; cool; quiet
to succeed (in doing); to pull something off; to manage (to do a job)
home area; home town; local
simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated
to present; to offer; to show; to display; to assume (e.g. a shape)
elbowroom; leeway; room; reserve; margin; allowance
all; everything; entirety; absolutely (not); (not) at all; (none) whatsoever
to support (someone) financially; to finance; to supply (money); to present (money or gifts) to a monarch (feudal lord, etc.)