floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
great love of books; favorite book (favourite)
house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building
feeling ashamed; feeling of one's inferiority
pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely
to enliven (e.g. a conversation); to animate; to engage in enthusiastically; to become successful and well known
variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.
to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of
not only ... (but also); not just; as well as
to have a taste for; to be fond of; to enjoy (in moderation); to be modest; to be prudent; to watch (e.g. one's behaviour)
for a long time; since long ago; always; already; far in advance (e.g. reservation)
pipe; tube; channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections; tobacco pipe
structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance
business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...
extravagant; lavish; opulent; luxurious; magnificent; splendid
container; case; receptacle; coffin; casket
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
to come from; to have roots in
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life
a great variety of; diversity
health; healthy; sound; fit
boom; rage; fad; boom; cross-arm
eradication; extermination; rooting out; stamping out; getting rid of
to vomit; to throw up; to emit; to send forth; to give (an opinion); to make (a comment)
to be mixed; to be blended with; to be combined; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to
(abstract) symbol; emblem; representation
color photo; colour photo
to gradually disappear; to be vanishing
to recollect; to remember; to reminisce; to imagine; to guess; to infer
addition; increase; Canada
phantom; vision; illusion; extremely rare item
hut; house; boarding house; school dormitory; (arch.) one day's march (approx. 12.2 km)
sexual prodigy; stud; Don Juan