half; 50%; tie; 5 parts; 5%
passing each other; missing (meeting) each other; failing to meet; (being at) cross purposes; discrepancy
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification
back; backing; going backwards; background; backdrop; backhand; backer
to slash back; to strike back; to counterattack; to cut the wheel; to perform a twisting backward knee trip
floating; drifting; weightlessness; softly; gently; lightly
creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring
to strike against; to collide with; to encounter; to meet; to clash
bottom of one's heart; depths of one's mind; innermost thoughts; from the bottom of one's heart; wholeheartedly; truly
to switch off; to turn off
trivial; not amounting to much; not enough to cause a problem; not as much as expected
reasonably; fairly; hurriedly; in a rush; approximately; about
startup; booting up; activation; starting (e.g. engine, computer); launch
network; Internet; net (hair, netball, etc.); net (price, weight, etc.); nett
from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; first volume (e.g. book); superior quality; best
to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up; to follow (hyperlink)
about here; in this neighborhood
byway; bypath; byroad; loophole; excuse
Miyazaki prefecture (Kyushu)
any beech tree of genus Castanopsis; chinquapin; chinkapin
Yanagita Kunio (1875.7.31-1962.8.8)
folklore studies; folkloristics
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
commemorative plaque (usu. on a stone); stone monument (bearing an inscription)
ancient Shinto music and dancing
two times; twice; two degrees
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
rental car; rent-a-car; hired auto; car rental agency; car hire agency; hire car agency
turning to the right; right turn
sightseeing; watching; viewing; sightseer; watcher; spectator
meter; gauge; metre (i.e. 100 cm); meter; animator