state of mind; mentality; psychology
celebrated personage; big-wig; person in a high position
to act timid (about doing); to show diffidence; to feel ashamed; to feel guilty
dramatization (e.g. of a novel); dramatisation; adaptation; dramatization; embellishment; exaggeration
piece (e.g. poetry); poem; essay; book; story
plate; dish; serving; helping; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
certain; one; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
to become better; to improve
lukewarm; tepid; lenient; (arch.) slow; (arch.) stupid
softness; gentleness; weakness
plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice
to shake off; to shake free from; to swing completely (bat, club, etc.); to take a full swing; to break off from (pursuer); to pull away
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room
to bring (somebody into a place); to lead into
evil influence; (evil) clutches; tentacles of evil
deep pool; deep water; abyss; depths (e.g. of despair, etc.); grip (e.g. of death)
to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce
(not) in the slightest; (not) at all
irony of fate; twist of fate
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
hut; cabin; small theatre (theater); temporary playhouse; one's own house
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
on the way back; returning
hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds); place near the mountains
alighting (from a train, bus, etc.); getting off; getting out (of a car)
getting on and off; embarking and disembarking
to crowd; to flock; to swarm
deserted (esp. store, market, town, streets); quiet; inactive (business, trade, etc.); slack; idle; free
at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much as possible; as much as one can
much less; to say nothing of
hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little