no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur
at full speed; as fast as one's legs can carry one
to ascertain; to make sure of; to determine; to probe; to get to the bottom (of something)
spare time; free time; time (e.g. time it takes to do something); time off; day off; quitting (one's job)
clearly; plainly; distinctly; to be clear; to be definite; to be certain
mud; slush; (wet) dirt; thief
to comb out; to brush; to untangle; to unravel
just; right; pure; genuine; truth
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
close-cropped hair; shaven head
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
rising up; towering; plump; chubby; shaggy; hairy
while surprised; suddenly
to overflow; to brim over; to flood
(arch.) to sink; (arch.) to go down; to pass away; to die; to disappear; to vanish
already; now; no longer; not any more
to dive (into or under water); to get under; to get into; to hide oneself (esp. from the government); to conceal oneself
idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish
to blow up (i.e. wind); to blow upwards; to spout into the air
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
in good health; healthy; skilled; proficient; master; expert
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
to look around; to survey
(musical) conductor; commander; leader; director
obi; kimono sash; paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.; band; belt; cingulum
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
although I say; although one might say; although called
abacus; soroban; calculation (esp. of profit and loss); reckoning
tie-dye; tie-dyeing; aperture (e.g. camera, iris of the eye); aperture stop; contraction; squeezing
white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white go stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine
cotton (material); red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)
to connect; to join; to join or tie or knot together
in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
true Tokyoite; Edoite; person born and raised in Edo
to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble
poor person; pauper; the poor; the indigent
haramaki; bellyband; stomach band; torso armour that opens at the back; haramaki
to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply
bleaching; bleached cotton; doxxing; doxing; public humiliation (as an Edo period punishment)
plate; dish; serving; helping; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on
to quit (a shady business); to wash one's hands of; to cut one's ties with; to wash one's feet