garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area
Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)
tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber
to change color (esp. leaves, fruit, flowers) (colour); to turn crimson (e.g. leaves in autumn); to begin to redden; to ripen; to grow ripe
leaf; blade (of grass); (pine) needle
by ones and twos; tears or flower petals falling quietly; gurgling bird sound; falling apart; crumbling; dish made from fiveleaf aralia sprouts, pickled daikon, walnuts, etc.
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
to contemplate; to ponder; to think long about; to turn over in one's mind
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
dark; gloomy; overcast; heavy; leaden; dull
quite; entirely; completely; as if; as though; just like
(in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood; around; about; for instance; say
ordinary; common; free of charge; unaffected; as is; only
Nagata-chō (Japan's political center; equiv. of Downing Street)
national parliament or congress building (e.g. National Diet Building (Japan), United States Capitol (USA), Houses of Parliament (UK), etc.)
construction; establishment
parliamentarism; parliamentary government
palace; hall; shrine; hall of fame
very; much; greatly; a lot of
to gather strength; to take heart
Ministry of Finance (1869-2001); Ministry of the Treasury (under the ritsuryo system)
one long straight object (e.g. strand of hair, beam of light, wisp of smoke); a single bloodline; earnest; resolute; (arch.) ordinary; (arch.) common
to serve out one's apprenticeship; to serve out one's time
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
administration; governance; the authorities; authority
day by day; by the day; (arch.) daily; (arch.) every day
withering; shrivelling; shrinking; atrophy; contraction
of course; certainly; naturally
Great Depression (1929-1939)
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
to suit; to match; to become; to be like
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply
achievement; attainment; accomplishment; realization
violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism
to be intolerable; to be unpardonable