wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line
poplar (esp. Lombardy poplar, Populus nigra var. italica)
roadside trees; row of trees
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
since one was born; (in) all one's life
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
to be born and raised (in); to be born and brought up; to be born and bred
as much as possible; unbeatably; unsurpassably
gathering material (for an article, novel, etc.); collecting information; covering (an event, incident, etc.); reporting; interview (for a news story)
drawing room; parlour; parlor; reception office
well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person
name; title; appellation; (under the) pretext (of); pretense
article; news story; report; account
to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of
diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing
(not) in any way; (not) at all; (none) whatsoever; what kind of
moderate; proper; just right
to close (at a certain point); to cut short; to round up (number); to revalue (currency)
to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect
one's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
good humour (humor); good mood
(outward) looks; features; face; countenance; expression
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance
narrow-minded; intolerant; petty
to infer; to figure out; to get an idea of; to tell; to imagine; to guess
fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity
this family; our family; this house; we
territory; dominion; grounds (e.g. school)
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
commoner; plebeian; commoner (in Japan between 1869 and 1947; the lowest of the three classes)
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); shouting repeatedly; pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
noble; high and noble; noble (character); refined; precious; expensive
readiness; (mental) preparedness; resolution; determination; resignation (to one's fate)
massacre; mass slaughter; genocide; holocaust
(level of) comfort (in the place one lives)
emotional scars; mental trauma
superficial; apparent; seeming; surface; cosmetic