splendor; splendour; gorgeousness; showiness; gaudiness; extravagance
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
in bad taste; vulgar; tasteless
purple; violet; Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell); type of soy sauce
center part (hairstyle); middle part
deep (colour); dark; strong (flavour, smell, etc.); thick (consistency); dense; strong (possibility, etc.)
make-up; makeup; cosmetics
to give (time, money, goods); to donate; to do; to perform; to apply (processing, makeup, etc.); to add (e.g. ornamentation, annotation)
to treat; to handle; to deal with; to arrange; to decorate; to dress
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
-smell; stinking of; smacking of; hinting of
gesture; gesticulation; motion
typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model
pot; volcanic crater; (one's) buttocks; male homosexual; effeminate man
to freeze to; to be frozen to; to freeze in place; to be still
quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence
to cast a shadow; to appear; to loom (of a threat, etc.); to manifest (of symptoms, etc.)
prosperity; thriving; flourishing
shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon)
to become overgrown; to grow thick; to spread; to run rampant; to thrive
bōryokudan; gangster organization (organisation); crime syndicate; yakuza
to boast of; to be proud of; to take pride in
foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
to solicit; to demand; to extort
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
influence; clout; leverage
at any rate; anyhow; anyway; in any case; because; as you know
it is no exaggeration to say; it is not too much to say
leader of a crime syndicate's henchmen; young leading subordinate in yakuza group