condition; state (of health); appearance
ex-wife; former wife; previous wife
hand-me-down; food offering to the gods; leftovers; trip from Kyoto to the provinces
men's things; menswear; men's wear; men's; for men
to disentangle; to untangle; to break up into pieces; to pick apart; to relieve; to ease
insincerity; dishonesty; untruthfulness; bad faith
dark; gloomy; overcast; heavy; leaden; dull
conspiracy; collusion; complicity
ironist; sarcastic person; sharp tongue; satirist
guidance; lead; introduction; good offices; guide; primer
in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs
from the beginning; from scratch
going up in flames; destruction by fire (esp. of a large building); stirring up a storm of criticism online (of an article, tweet, statement, etc.); becoming the target of an Internet pitchfork mob
hundredfold; hundred times as much; much more (than previously)
shamisen; samisen; three-stringed Japanese lute
curiosity-seeking; bizarre (crime, etc.); grotesque; abnormal
strenuous effort; hard struggle; working hard; hard fighting; fierce fighting
end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle; end of the world (esp. in fiction); apocalypse
supreme ruler; autocrat; dynast; high king
area of the field one is supposed to (or able to) defend; (one's) field; (one's) scope; one's type; kind of person one is attracted to
wheedling child; spoiled child; pampered child; child who always demands attention
video game (played on a home console)
unusual power; superpower; ability beyond that of humans
reduction; decrease; subtraction; (arch.) reduction of penalty (under the ritsuryō codes)
disciplinary dismissal (discharge)
speech balloon (in a comic strip); speech bubble; blowoff; effusion; blowing (of a seasonal or climatic wind)
saturated linework; concentrated linework
location (of something); whereabouts; hiding place
emergency staircase; fire escape
to deceive (with words); to cajole; to talk into; to explain away (e.g. unpleasant evidence); to argue away; to wheedle
to sing; to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem; to express in the form of a poem; to recite (a poem)
having a garden; with a garden
to follow (someone); to shadow; to tail; to stalk
spy; secret agent; shill; stealth advertiser
to show one's true colors (colours); to expose one's faults; to give oneself away