manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party
reality; actuality; hard fact
business world; business circles; (the) industry
karma; result of one's karma; fate; uncontrollable temper
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other
song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry
to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem
vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy
to become empty; to be emptied
aluminium can; aluminum can
exaltation; emotional uplift
to spur (on); to expedite; to encourage
to rise; to swell; to be promoted
tenth day of the month; ten days
congratulations!; well done!; best wishes!; all the best!
leaving something where it is; abandoning something
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
red earth (i.e. containing cinnabar or minium); vermilion
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
to cross one's mind; to occur to one; to flash into one's head
public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels)
to be sad; to mourn for; to regret
to lose (a chance); to miss (a chance); to overlook; to omit; to deviate
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly
to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)
to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)
to throw; to hurl; to give up; to abandon; to cast (a glance, shadow, doubt, etc.)
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)
lifeline; safety rope; safety tether
skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery
catch; catching; catch; shop tout; puller-in; catching (in swimming and boating); catching the water
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that
stale; old fashioned; hackneyed; trite; antiquated; obsolete
wife and children; (arch.) wife