very hungry; starving; bowing repeatedly; kowtowing; denting; buckling
charming; fascinating; enchanting; bewitching; beguiling; captivating
calamity; disaster; accident
remote region; outlying district; border district; frontier
count; earl; chief official of the Department of Worship (under the ritsuryō system); Brazil
end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring
young lady of noble birth; princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.); girl; small; cute; (arch.) prostitute
poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem
piece (e.g. poetry); poem; essay; book; story
to remember; to recall; to call to mind; to imagine; to picture in one's mind; to visualize
specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
crash; smash; bang; sound of a large, heavy object falling
expansion; extension; magnification; enlargement; escalation; spread
preference; priority; precedence; right of way
of late; lately; this part; this point; here
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
to be fragrant; to smell (good); to stink; to smell (bad); to glow; to be bright
to go to meet (someone); to go to pick up
as (X, then Y); with; in accordance with; in proportion to
unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; shorthandedness; lack of help
borrowing something already borrowed
neglecting; leaving alone
to fill with holes; to riddle (e.g. with bullets)
to rebuild; to reconstruct
full of openings; half empty; (cutting) sharply; cleanly; (arch.) (progressing) smoothly
udon; thick Japanese wheat noodles
shabby; dull; cheap; lackluster; uninspiring; depressing
to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away
out of control; out of hand; unmanageable; nothing one can do
to melt; to liquefy; to dissolve (in a liquid); to be soluble (in); to be used up (of money or time); to be wasted
freezing compartment; freezer
ladies' bicycle (esp. one with a front basket); granny bike
chain (bicycle, measuring, tire, etc.); chain (store, hotel, etc.)
desperately; for one's dear life
direct unforked road; straight path
to slide; to glide; to slip; to skid; to be slippery; to fail (an examination); to lose (a position)
gliding; sliding; skating (on ice); taxiing; making a takeoff run
turning away from; shift away from; being far removed from; being very different from; becoming independent of
difference in grades (e.g. in go, shoji, etc.); difference in level (e.g. road, footpath); ramp; steps
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
very cheesy; very flashy; extremely gaudy