opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse
to keep company; to listen to; to associate with; to play against (e.g. a team); to take on (e.g. a rival)
entertainment hall (for rakugo, manzai, magic, music, etc.); vaudeville theater (theatre); music hall
puppet operator; puppet manipulator; puppeteer
suitable; appropriate; befitting; conjoining; association; samprayukta
omission; slip; error; definition (of photograph); sharpness; clarity (sound)
playing to the gallery; showing off; pretence; surface preparation (for painting, etc.); scraping a surface clean
as (X, then Y); with; in accordance with; in proportion to
Japanese puppet theatre (theater); bunraku
east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!
to assemble everything together; to do something as a group
any more; any further; any better; any longer
errand; mission; messenger; bearer; familiar spirit; use
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
Japanese scull (oar attached to the rear of the boat by a traditional peg-in-hole oarlock)
figure; design; twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes; style (of writing); figure (of speech); design
shallows; shoal; rapids; current; position; place
Harima (former province located in the southwestern part of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture)
to waste time; to kill time
large size (paper, book, etc.); ōban; large oval gold coin used in the Edo period
(arch.) office; (arch.) official; chief; head; (Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa) person (usually a woman) whose duty it is to officiate at religions ceremonies
to hold out (e.g. against an attack); to hang on; to withstand; to endure; to last
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive
wooden figure; wooden doll; puppet; blockhead; good-for-nothing; fool
exceptional; praiseworthy; laudable
wooden doll; blockhead; good-for-nothing
to be inferior to; to be less good at; to fall behind
charm; attractiveness; humanity
appreciation; admiration; enjoyment
to make a mistake; to be incorrect; to be mistaken
poisonous; venomous; hateful; detestable; gaudy; garish
paint; coloring materials; colors; colours
to scatter; to cause a shower of; to disperse; to distribute; to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve
signboard; sign; draw; attraction; reputation (of a shop); name
loose; lenient; lax; gentle (curve, slope, etc.); slow; weak; soft
lily magnolia (Magnolia quinquepeta, Magnolia liliiflora)
flat cap; cloth cap; newsboy cap; (hunting) cap