porcelain; china; chinaware; ceramics; pottery
gloss; luster; mellowness (of a voice); youthfulness (e.g. of skin); interest; appeal
thin (e.g. air); diluted; sparse; lacking (e.g. empathy); deficient; insufficient (e.g. zeal)
actually; really; truly; in practice; practically
ornament; decorative object; object placed in a tokonoma; figurehead; leader without real power
there; over there; genitals; private parts; that far; that much
hesitation; bewilderment; illusion; delusion; inability to reach enlightenment
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
to interrupt (a story, etc.); to bend at the waist
to say; to be called; to do
white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white go stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine
plenipotentiary powers; full authority
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
enterprise; business; company; corporation
conference room; council room
administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like
control; restraint; suppression; constraint; curtailment; inhibition
unflaggingly; steadily; untiringly; knocking; tapping; clicking
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to nail; to knock; to bang (e.g. one's head); to throw (e.g. a rock); to fling
reality; actuality; actual conditions; ultimate reality; absolute truth
irritation; annoyance; frustration
atmosphere; mood; a certain air; presence; (Earth's) atmosphere
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
nonchalantly; without a care
to stand up; to get up; to rise; to recover; to take action; to start; to make the initial charge
alright; all right; right on; looking good; OK; okay
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)
thanks (for coming, helping, etc.); glad you could make it; tiredness; fatigue
face; honour; meld; lineup (of players participating in a mahjong game); attendees (e.g. at a meeting); members
extra; more; unnecessary; needless; all the more; even more
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
moving forward (e.g. vehicle); onward movement; advance (work, procedure, etc.); advancement; progress (of a disease); disease progression
to get down to business; to cut to the chase; to get straight to the point; to move on to the main subject
to sum up; to summarize; to summarise
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
right in the middle (of); midst; height