date (with someone); (social) outing (for two); date night; date (day)
place; location; room; space; sumo tournament
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
something like ...; something called ...
abruptly; suddenly; all of a sudden; without warning
(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style; one Buddhist image
weekly (publication); weekly magazine; weekly journal
to take (a photograph); to record (audio or video); to film; to shoot
bad; wrong; must not (do, be); should not; useless; no good; hopeless
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
direction; orientation; bearing; course (e.g. of action)
time; season; period; phase; stage
space (between); gap; period of time (during, while); duration; between (two parties or things); among (a group); relations (between)
to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn
buzz buzz (sound of robust cicadas)
sneakily; secretly; stealthily; on the sly
(another's) son; boy; young master; green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world
from now; from this moment; henceforth
Matsuyama (city in Ehime)
old; former; the old; old things; old times; bygone days
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)
tunnel; to tunnel (through a potential barrier); letting a grounder go through one's legs
Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)
within the (Tokyo) metropolitan area
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt; sentence-ending particle expressing a rhetorical question
Sōseki Natsume (1867-1916; novelist)
to sleep; to die; to rest (in peace); to lie idle (e.g. of resources); to lie unused; (arch.) to close one's eyes
to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do
all over; filled in; complete; total; clichéd; hackneyed; plaintext
to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve; to transfer (phone call)
to be heard; to be audible; to sound (like); to come across (as); to be well known; to be famous
anxiety; uneasiness; worry; apprehension; fear; insecurity
unattractive; ugly; unstylish; uncool
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal
because; as; since; because of that; therefore; accordingly
obedient; meek; honest; frank; straight (e.g. hair); without peculiarity
to stand (something) up; to put upright; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to let out; to raise (a cloud of dust, smoke, etc.)