textbook; coursebook; schoolbook
government management; state management
broadcasting; broadcast; program; announcement
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition
to be solved; to be resolved; to loosen; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. a ban)
examination; quiz; test; tryout; rehearsal (in filming)
sense of touch; tactile; tactual; hair style with long bangs
to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see
ancestor; forefather; foremother
ritual; religious service; festival
to rule; to govern; to administer
government office; public office
to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to
lower grade; low class; junior (officer)
miko; shrine maiden; young girl or woman (trad. an unmarried virgin) who assists priests at shrines; medium; sorceress; shamaness
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
woman; female; feminine gender
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
way (of doing things); method; style; school (e.g. of poetry)
man; male; masculine gender
political structure or mechanism
gradually (progress into a state); in sequence; in order; in turn
to look down on; to make light of
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
falling into straitened circumstances; downfall; ruin
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
before long; soon; almost; nearly; finally; in the end
entertainer (esp. in a traditional art); performer; artiste; talented person; accomplished person
roaming; drifting about; wandering
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
to be congenial; to agree with one; to be in one's nature
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
dignity; majesty; dignified manner
being out of office; lacking a title
each locality; each place; each region