garden shrubs; trees; potted plant
class; order; et cetera; etc.; equal; iso-
steady advance; carrying all before one
round coin with a (square) hole in the center; coin made of non-precious materials; money
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
additional; extraordinary; outside the norms; special case
man of the future; Homo futurus
touching; moving; painful
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
arriving at the present; present-day; to arrive at the present day
freezing compartment; freezer
peaceful; tranquil; calm; restful
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle
Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people
televising; broadcasting; airing
pre-war days; before the war
handsome youth (male); pretty boy
swordsman; swordswoman; fencer
break (rest); break (tennis, boxing, snooker, etc.); suddenly becoming popular; becoming a hit
future years; in (one's) later years
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
whole year; entire year; n-th year anniversary
changing (job, career, lifestyle, social position, beliefs, etc.)
death; rejection (of a manuscript, etc.); lacking; without
October; tenth month of the lunar calendar
November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar
August; eighth month of the lunar calendar
April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic
originator; pioneer; inventor; progenitor; primogenitor; founder of a family line
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
second marriage; remarriage
to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical
large-scale, long-running TV series (esp. of period pieces produced by NHK)