book; volume; this; present; main; head
300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort
mochi; (sticky) rice cake
to cut down; to chop down; to fell
with a complacent smile; with a smile of satisfaction
ball (for sport, games, etc.); kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan
to float; to set afloat; to show on one's face (smile, sadness, etc.); to recall; to call to mind
cigarette; cig; smoke; fag
dividing for administrative purposes; partition; division
with a whiff; with a puff; suddenly; abruptly; without warning
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
to look around; to survey
storehouse; warehouse; godown
to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
innumerable; countless; numberless
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
as far as the eye can see
to pile up; to stack up; to accumulate
(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)
to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to show someone (into a room)
to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged
charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?
to strain one's eyes; to look closely; to stare at
to collapse; to crumble; to get out of shape; to lose one's shape; to break down; to be thrown into disarray; to crash (stock market)
row; line; company (of someone); group; sequence; counter for rows
to grow; to spring up; to sprout; to cut (teeth)
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
consequence; outcome; result; blame
soft; tender; gentle; mild; informal; light
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
to bear; to stand; to endure; to put up with
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
you (plural); all of you; you all
to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide
to spoil; to break; to go bad; to go wrong; to fail