normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
technique; art; skill; move
even though; despite; notwithstanding
tool; implement; means; furniture
-less; lacking; non-existing
like-mindedness; (being of the) same mind; shared sentiment; comrade; fellow; kindred soul
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
babysitting; babysitter; taking care of; assisting; assistant
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
offering to a deity or somebody's spirit; tribute to a person who is about to depart
to bend; to curve; to turn; to be awry; to be askew
leaving a warship; abandoning ship; retirement from a naval post; retirement from captaincy (of a naval ship)
lunch; (Western-style) single-plate lunch set; plate lunch; launch (boat); motorboat; ranch
to run through; to run past
superiority; superior power; predominance; preponderance
memento (from a dead person); souvenir; keepsake; orphan; posthumous child
the more ... the more ...; as; (arch.) while; (arch.) during; (arch.) because; (arch.) since
end of war; cessation of hostilities
arrangement; pact; agreement