fantasy; illusion; vision; dream
highest grade; superlative degree
so much; so often; oh, yes!; that's it; that's right; quite
crossing swords; competing against; contending with; fighting against
to entangle; to entwine; to pick a quarrel; to find fault; to be involved with; to be influenced by
higher rank; better position
cause; seed; variety; kind; counter for varieties
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not
shoe; shoes; boots; footwear; footgear
in the end; on top of that
to be wildly different; to be on a completely different scale; to be in a different league; to be poles apart; to stand no comparison; (lit.) to be on a different order of magnitude
as a rule; in general; in principle; basically; essentially; fundamentally
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
(in gagaku or noh) middle section of a song
Mt.; Mount; (fig.) Mt.; (fig.) Mount
one swing; one shake (e.g. of pepper); one sword
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
seeing through (e.g. someone's lies); reading (e.g. thoughts); penetrating; detecting
special characteristic; special quality; trait; idiosyncrasy; peculiarity
ace up one's sleeve; trump card; secret skills; secret; (arch.) left hand
even if not; even without
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
in good health; alive and well; going strong
draft; draught; cold air entering through the crack of a door or window; cooling off of a relationship; draft of cold air between two persons
on the occasion of; at the time of
attached; belonging (to); included; enclosed; affiliated; annexed
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
to fold up; to fold into layers
to exceed; to be even more (so); to exaggerate
warm; mild; warm (of a colour); mellow; having enough money
frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair
sound of two hard thin objects rubbing together; crunch crunch
ice; shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)
footprints; record of page visitors (e.g. in social networking sites)
ice water; shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)
carefree; optimistic; careless; reckless; heedless; happy-go-lucky
to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)
per-capita division; division according to the number of people
to buy up; to lay in a stock; to stock up; to buy a lot
softly; gently; stealthily; secretly; to leave alone; to leave as it is
before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to