to become better; to improve
effect; efficacy; virtue; benefit
sweetness; sugary taste; sweets; dessert; cake
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
fixtures; furnishings; equipment
to lessen; to decrease; to diminish
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
turning round; going around; turning about; surrounding; encircling
place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
(feather) duster; dusting
tap-tap; knock-knock; cough-cough; bark (of a fox); yelp; heavily (e.g. of snow falling)
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
to be able to reach; to be within one's reach; to be able to afford; to be near (a certain age)
cleaning with a cloth (floors, etc.); dirty work; low-level work; apprentice work
to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect
to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud
to visit; to call on; to pay a visit to
Mt.; Mount; (fig.) Mt.; (fig.) Mount
something to think about; one's thoughts; concern; thinking about something; being absorbed in one's thoughts
to look toward; to have one's eyes drawn towards something
apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize
having said that; on the other hand
window-gazing; window-shopping
deliberately; carefully; thoroughly; without rushing
scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
to be rested; to feel at ease; to repose; to be relieved
that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there
to become stiff (of muscles); to get absorbed in; to develop a passion for; to be elaborate; to be intricate
(for the taste of something) to become apparent; (for someone's character) to come out
to lose one's way; to get lost; to waver; to hesitate; to give into temptation; to lose control of oneself
a lot more; much more; and then some; and plenty more than that