east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!
long-term resident; fixed domicile resident; permanent resident
energy; vigour; vigor; liveliness; spirit; life
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre
declining; refusal; rejection; announcement; notice
to deal with (a person); to treat; to deal with (a problem); to handle; to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to deal in
downheartedly; dejectedly; dispiritedly; despondently
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
to comfort; to console; to amuse
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
back street; back alley; off-street
hand-to-hand fighting; grappling; scuffling
to take someone (to some place); to take someone along; to lead someone away
to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)
making one's debut; making one's first appearance; (just) showing one's face; showing up; introductory kabuki performance (to introduce the actors); December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform
being put off (by someone's words, behaviour, etc.); being taken aback; recoiling (in shock, disgust, etc.); zooming out or pulling the camera back to get a wider image (in film and TV)
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
I fear that it's likely that; with all due respect
to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along
end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring
something; some kind of; for some reason
friendship; fellowship; camaraderie
to show signs of ...; to have the appearance of ...
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
to stroke; to caress; to brush gently; to comb (hair); to smooth down
hope; promise; expectation; anticipation; side of a structural member
to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except
(town) market; (street) market; marketplace
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse