spare time; free time; time (e.g. time it takes to do something); time off; day off; quitting (one's job); firing someone
to hew; to chop up; to mangle; to mince
mischief; prank; pastime; hobby; playing with (a lighter, etc.); fooling around with
gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase
technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft
progress; advance; improvement; development
(department) store; (department) stores
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
kabuki; Japanese classical drama
the rest; the others; in addition (to that); besides that; and so forth; and the like
various; varied; diverse; all sorts of
following (in the footsteps of); catching up with; coming level with
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
to show signs of ...; to have the appearance of ...
one face; one surface; the whole surface; one aspect; one side; (on) the other hand; one broad, flat object
drama; theatre; theater; play
class; order; et cetera; etc.; equal; iso-
to cross over; to go across; to extend; to cover; to range
taste (in goods, etc.); manners; etiquette; modesty; restraint; knowledge, experience (of the arts, etc.)
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable
enthusiast; fan; lover; devotee; aficionado
to call together; to convene
good offices; auspices; sponsorship; village official (during the Edo period)
art gallery (esp. artworks for sale); picture gallery
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
solo exhibition; one-man exhibition; one-woman exhibition
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers
noisy; loud; boisterous; turbulent; unsettled; restless
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
alongside a railway line, bus route, major thoroughfare, etc.
outcasts common around the Kyoto region from the Kamakura period to the Edo period