choking; suffocating; stifling; oppressive; heavy
talkativeness; garrulity; loquacity
wrong impression; subjective impression; assumption; prejudice
case (e.g. receptacle, condition, event, legal action, letter style, etc.); Computer-Aided Software Engineering; CASE
ruffled (hair, brush bristles, etc.); unkempt; dishevelled; idling away time; dawdling; dilly-dallying
to spend time (on doing something)
to comb out; to brush; to untangle; to unravel
to comb upwards; to brush up (a loose strand of hair); to turn up a lamp wick
huh?; eh?; what?; oh; hey!; look!
meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview
pink (colour, color); (lit.) colour of peach (flowers)
addition; supplement; appending; appendix
really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way
appeal (e.g. to public opinion); plea; appeal (e.g. sex appeal); attractiveness; appeal (e.g. in baseball); emphasizing (strong points, etc.)
port city; harbor city; harbour city
worldwide; global; international; world-famous; world-class
scale; scope; plan; structure
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
to be crowded with people; to be bustling with; to prosper; to flourish; to do thriving business
paper lantern; Chinese lantern; Japanese lantern
to come and go; to go back and forth
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
gradation; gradation haircut; taper
in succession; one by one
mixture; intermixture; mixing up; contamination; creation of unorthodox words or phrases by combining terms of similar form or meaning
to hit; to run into; to light on; to strike into; to come against; to deadlock
column shape; cylinder; columnar
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
government body; government agency
to be conspicuous; to stand out