execution; carrying out; performance; lead monk performing various tasks in a temple
incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; I don't get it; I'm confused; I'm lost
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach
beast (i.e. any animal other than man); person reborn into the animal realm; brute (i.e. a contemptible human being); damn it; damn
still; much more; (not) yet; still a long way to go; still a long way off; not there yet
on and after; as from; hereafter; thereafter; since
if it is the case that ...
creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright
to say; to be called; to do
frequency (of occurrence)
text (of a book, document, etc.); body (of a letter); this passage; this sentence
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
publication; issue (of journal, newspaper, etc.); issue (of banknotes, bonds, passport, etc.); raising an event (software)
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)
deadline; closing; cofferdam; closed (door, window, etc.)
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
submission date; filing date; due date (e.g. for homework)
coincidence; agreement; conformity; consistency; cooperation
January; first month of the lunar calendar
escape from reality; escapism; ostrichism
graduation thesis; bachelor's degree thesis
doing whatever one pleases
light novel; young-adult illustrated fiction
badness; evilness; bad; evil
one copy (of a document); one letter; one-way traffic; pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9)
going and returning (e.g. work, school); both ways
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
light novel; young-adult illustrated fiction
cell phone novel; literary work originally written on a cellular phone
(I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); (I) fancy (that)
professor; teaching; instruction
space on a page (e.g. in a newspaper); surface of paper; letter; writings