reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)
individual; private person; personal; private
to fight against; to oppose; to face
piece; fragment; one (object)
to envelop; to blanket; to cloak
to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with
to allow; to let (somebody) do; to make (somebody) do
not necessarily; not entirely; not altogether
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
decorative curtain hung from the ceiling; tent; pavilion; marquee
to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on
January; first month of the lunar calendar
food stand; food stall; branch store
to push out; to project; to stick out; to hand over (e.g. to the police)
chimney; smokestack; funnel (of a ship); carrying a passenger without turning on the taximeter
to rise up (e.g. pillar of smoke); to go up
setting up a stall or booth (bazaar, festival); opening a branch office; opening a store
cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)
middle of the night; dead of night
tedium; boredom; dullness; to feel bored; to get bored with; to get tired of
rest period; intermission; break time; recess
grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude
to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)
to stay up all night; to spend the night without sleep
traveller; traveler; wayfarer; tourist
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
disadvantage; handicap; unfavorable position
inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness
convenient; useful; finding useful; coming in handy; (priceless) treasure
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
when it comes to the cause; when you get right down to it; as for what started it; as for the reason; originally
night stall; night shop; night fair
satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client
a lot; lots; enough; sufficient; enough; too many
to come off; to be removed; to disappear (of pain, a fever, etc.); to be caught; to be harvested; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)
to repeat; to do something over again
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding