watercolor painting; watercolour painting
national language; Japanese language (esp. as a school subject in Japan); one's native language; mother tongue; native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords and Chinese-derived words)
Moon; month; moonlight; (a) moon; natural satellite
(the extent of) one's vocabulary
female high school student
keno (casino game); kino (gum, resin); kino (cinema)
refinement; elegance; sophistication; gracefulness
short story; short film; short poem
planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)
bomb; alcohol with liquor added (esp. wine-based shōchū highball, also beer with whiskey)
collection of short stories; collected short stories
familiar spirit; familiar
tiger (Panthera tigris); drunkard; drunk; sot
stairs; stairway; staircase
awareness that one is not good at something; feelings of inferiority
laughing oneself into convulsions; splitting one's sides laughing; rolling with laughter
preconception; preconceived notion; prejudice
iridescent clouds; glowing clouds
mechanism; mechanics; machines; mechanic
to be good (at); to go well; to look (taste, etc.) good; to hold one's liquor; to be able to hold one's drink
manner of speaking; mode of expression; way of saying something
(unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario); (lit.) 10000 to 1; (if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that
feeling good; feeling at ease; feeling easy
change; alteration; difference; distinction; something wrong; abnormality
(written) work; book; (written) by; clearness; obviousness
Sekigahara (battle site, 1600); decisive battle; critical battle
gracious (defeat, apology, etc.); graceful; upright; righteous; (arch.) unspoiled (scenery, etc.); (arch.) pure
great success; big hit; (hitting the) jackpot; big win; being right on the mark (of a prediction); being bang on
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them; flaking out
to surround; to encircle; to enclose; to fawn over (someone); to play up to; to curry favor with
noisy; boisterous; turbulent (era, etc.); troubled
by all means; at all costs; absolutely
judgement; judgment; connoisseur
as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough; really; actually; ever
excellent; superb; first-rate
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)