enjoyment; pleasure; diversion; anticipation; looking forward to
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
agency; commission; reception (of guests); conveyance (of messages)
serving tea (esp. at a company); tea server; tea lady
chief; main; principal; important
remodeling; remodelling; restructuring; modding
is it?; isn't it?; be; is
to become possible; to become able to (do)
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
progress; pace; carriage; step; stage
indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged
establishment; creation; posing (a problem); options setting; preference settings; configuration
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
one's later years; final years (in life)
sweetly (smiling); broadly (grinning)
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
mechanism; machinery; trick; dodge; mechanical doll; string puppet
enthusiast; mania; enthusiasm
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
admiration; being impressed; admirable; praiseworthy; astonishment; being appalled
another name; nickname; alias; synonym (taxonomy)
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
closing years (period, days); last stage; end stage; terminal (e.g. cancer, disease, etc.); final
trick; contrivance; cleverness
teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun
to strike; to clap; to play drums; to abuse; to bash; to consult; to sound out
to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square
lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal
tradition; legend; folklore
real; realistic; serious; non-joking; realtime blog; real world (cf. online games or social networking services)
enthusiast; fan; lover; devotee; aficionado
storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story
drama; play; Chinese opera
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care