rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller)
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
How do you do?; I am glad to meet you
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
the other day; lately; recently
sponsor; promoter; impresario; organizer; organiser
photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie
to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous
look!; look out!; hey!; look at me!; there you are!
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
senior high school student
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
association; socializing; socialising; fellowship
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of
every month; each month; monthly
allowance; remittance; sending (someone) an allowance
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
to respond; to answer; to meet (e.g. demands, expectations); to affect; to take a toll; to strike home
confidence; trust; faith; credit (finance)
usual; normal; everyday; usually; normally; generally
to be separated; to be apart; to leave; to go away; to leave (a job, etc.); to quit
to live; to get along; to spend (time)
(some) more; even more; longer; further
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money
and; thereupon; because of that
old saying; old expression; old language; ancient language; archaic word
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up
getting information (esp. by interviewing witnesses, etc. in a police investigation)
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
now; soon; already; yet; further; more
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
all; the whole; on the whole; all in all; generally
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
good; OK; all right; fine; very well; will do
amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic); full; one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat; fully; to capacity
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling