to teach; to take a teaching job
pupil; student; schoolchild
seriousness; earnestness; truth; sanctity
to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon
disciple; pupil; follower
dependent on luck; matter of luck
individual; separate; personal; case-by-case
study subject; course of study; department (university, etc.)
alchemy; way of making money; moneymaker; money-spinner
alchemy; art of making elixirs
alchemy; art of making elixirs
by-product; spin-off; outgrowth; side effect
poisonous substance; toxic substance; poison
never ceasing; never ending; endless
barren; sterile; infertile; unproductive (e.g. discussion); fruitless
greening (i.e. planting to increase greenery); tree planting; afforestation
felling timber; cutting down trees; logging; lumbering
environmental destruction
being actualized; becoming apparent; becoming tangible; surfacing
to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse; to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted
to be transparent; to be see-through; to be clear; to be clear (voice, sound)
downstream; lower reaches of a river; lower classes
wooded country; wooded (timber) region; woodland; woodlands
Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)
ten thousand years; eternity; perennial; perpetual
to the previous extent; as much as previously; as much as one used to
chipped stone tool; flaked stone tool
Paleolithic; Palaeolithic; Old Stone Age
comfortable to live in (of a neighborhood, etc.); convenient; congenial; agreeable
to ask after (someone's health); to visit; to attack; to strike; to meet with misfortune
foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
leaving out; omitting; skipping; (beating) in succession; in a row
earthenware; unglazed (bisque-fired) earthenware
abundant; ample; plentiful; lustrous; glossy
waste land; wilderness; moor; field; plain