lifeline; matter of life or death; indispensable thing; life line (in palm reading)
turning by hand; hand-turned; hand-cranked; preparations; arrangements
suffering; distress; difficulty; hardship; misery; being bogged down
difficult voyage; stormy passage; hard flight; rough going; running into trouble; proceeding with difficulty
other people's affairs; someone else's problem
to stir; to churn; to rummage around; to throw into confusion; to throw into chaos
library (usu. single-room); small library
affinity; feeling of closeness (with someone); feeling of kinship
listen!; you see; mind you; remember
wooden building blocks; wooden bricks; playing with building blocks; piled timber; piling up wood
to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with; to toy with (another's emotions, etc.); to trifle with; to do with something as one pleases; to appreciate
to shoot (a gun, person, etc.); to fire
diamond; diamond; infield; diamonds (suit)
general review (e.g. of one's lessons); dress rehearsal
large country; major nation; great power; province of the highest rank (ritsuryō system)
face with no make-up; unpainted face; true face (of a country, celebrity, etc.); real face; sober face; sobriety
to take a peep at; to catch a glimpse of
old boy; alumnus; graduate; out of bounds
dozens; scores of; decades
companion (sister) volume (to); sequel (to)
to break through; to penetrate; to pierce
planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)
abundant; plentiful; rich; ample
lively group (esp. of young people); dynamic bunch; group
daily publication; daily issue
to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize
separate volume; extra issue; supplement; additional volume; supplementary volume
domestically produced; domestic; Japanese-made
returning (home) to Tokyo; returning to the capital
group; party; team; squad; section