row of houses; every house; each house; all; totally
unevenness; roughness; ruggedness; inequality; imbalance; unevenness
black terracotta; black soil
dirt floor; room with dirt floor; pit (theater seating); parterre
work tabi; split-toed heavy cloth shoes with rubber soles
to tread down so as to harden (soil, snow, etc.)
bad smell; foul smell; offensive odor; stench; stink
3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle
beginning; commencement; first (one comes to); approaching; affability; approachability
tatami mat without a "heri" edge
large room; green room; waiting room for performers when off stage; junior actor; actor of small parts; large hospital room (for several patients)
nobori; long, narrow banner attached to a pole on one side and a horizontal rod along the top; Boys' Day nobori; carp streamer
riverbank; riverside; market on the riverbank (esp. fish market); place (for activities); venue
tuna (Thunnus spp.; esp. the Pacific bluefin); dead fish (person who is unresponsive or passive during sex); starfish; body of a person struck by a train; person unconscious due to alcohol
accommodation fees; hotel charges; room charges; rent
thin bedding; hard bed; bedding worn flat and hard by usage
alone and dejected; lonely and downhearted; lonely and crestfallen
to be sooty; to be stained
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known
dreary; bleak; lonely; lonesome; desolate
to be smeared; to be covered
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
(Oh) dear!; (Oh) dear me!; Good gracious
millionaire; multimillionaire
talkie (motion picture with sound); prerecorded announcement
gust (of wind); blast; influence; impact; instigation; agitation
bitter experience; misery; distress; grief; sad thoughts; hardship
the mere shadow of one's former self; the ruin of what one once was
character of a place; situation; location; occasion
forlorn and helpless; lonely and desolate
slow; sluggish; dull; lax (regulation, handling, etc.); slack; sloppy
to step over; to step across; to stride over; to stretch over; to span; to bridge
kana; Japanese syllabaries (i.e. hiragana and katakana)
iron (Fe); steel; iron (will, discipline, lady, etc.); railway; railway enthusiast
iron rod; iron bar; iron club; horizontal bar (gymnastics)
to put on airs; to assume importance; to be self-important; to be pretentious; to be pompous; to stand on one's dignity
way of writing; manner of writing; penmanship (esp. used in old textbooks); calligraphy; format (e.g. of a report); stroke order of a character
care; looking after; repair; (police) raid; crackdown