winter vacation; winter holidays
tenement house; row house
scrawl; scribble; graffiti; doodle
standing signboard; billboard; hoarding
form of a character (e.g. simplified, traditional); type; typeface; font
soft and lacking firmness; weak; weak-willed; spineless; weak (market); bearish
to have heard somewhere; to sound familiar
hakama; pleated skirt or loose-legged trousers worn over a kimono mainly on ceremonial occasions; (leaf) sheath; (sake bottle) stand
dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)
heavy outfit designed to keep out the cold
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
curious onlookers; rubbernecks
hey; yo; hi; come on; hey
four arithmetic operations; basic arithmetic operations
to treat (someone) to (something); to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live in luxury; to be proud; to be haughty
tree sparrow (Passer montanus); talkative person; knowledgeable person
awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely
perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem
to get tired of; to tire of; to lose interest in; to become sated; to become satiated; to have one's fill
circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period
gobang (game played on go board involving lining up stones); gomoku; Five in a Row
insane; crazy; nuts; out of one's mind
malicious; ill-tempered; unkind; mean; nasty
pedestrian crossing; crosswalk
Shimizu Kunio (1936.11.17-)
jack; knave; (electrical) jack; hijack; hijacking
sunshade; sunscreen; window shade; blinds
what little ... one has; tiny amount of; paltry
to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to whirl (in the wind); to flutter (about); to swirl
stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others; solo raid on an enemy's camp (for glory)
railway crossing; railroad crossing; starting line; scratch; determination; stepping over the edge of the ring
soft; tender; gentle; mild; light (topic, book, etc.); informal