festive mood; holiday mood; festive atmosphere
attendance; presence; appearance
completely black; black from top to bottom; black from head to toe
festival; feast; carnival; matsuri
to unfold; to unroll; to open
remains; traces; (the sorrow of) parting; end
reserve; spare; note; memorandum; duplicate; copy
event; festivities; function; social gathering; auspices; opening
to supply (goods, money, etc.); to cover (costs); to pay; to give board; to provide meals
height (e.g. of summer); peak (e.g. of cherry blossom season); prime (of one's life); (one's) best days; (being in) heat; rut
to miss (a train, bus, etc.); to fail to keep up with (e.g. the times); to be left behind by
far from; anything but; not at all ... but rather ...; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
feeling good; feeling at ease; feeling easy
to open the lid; to lift a lid; to open the lid (on); to make public; to start (something); to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect)
of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)
to tower above; to stand out
cooperativeness; spirit of cooperation
cooperation; conciliation; harmony; coordination
mixture; jumble; blend; making a cord by entwining threads of various colours
stagnation; hindrance; delay
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
portable painting used as part of the backdrop (in kabuki, etc.)
to lose sight of (one's companions); to stray from; to miss (one's chance to ...)
odd; strange; queer; peculiar
(common) cold; influenza; flu; ague; inflammatory respiratory system illness (in general)
absence; disregard; indifference
to contemplate; to ponder; to think long about; to turn over in one's mind
dwindling; declining; diminishing; tapering (to a point)
spread; extension; influence; aftereffect; ripple
(an actor) conveying qualities of a character without gestures or speech; implied acting; implicitly asserting one's will (e.g. by sheer force of personality); performance using one's stomach (e.g. by drawing a face on it and animating it using one's abdominal muscles); acrobatics performed on a laid-out person's belly
cannot be helped; unavoidable
to hesitate; to think twice; to flinch; to get cold feet
to collect one's thoughts; to gather one's thoughts; to put one's ideas in order
to pause; to have a short intermission
as usual; as always; as ever; as before; still
first thing in the morning
obstinate; stubborn; headstrong
looking; viewing; (please) try (to)
request; appeal; claim; purchase
to be at a loss; to rack one's brains in vain; to think and think but get nowhere; to fail to come up with a good idea
to be completely weakened; to be utterly exhausted; to be worn out; to be completely at a loss; to be at one's wits' end; to be greatly annoyed (by)