painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
to lay aside; to set aside
fingertip; finger; toe tip; toe
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
each time; every time; whenever (something happens); on the occasion of
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
to lose composure; to be upset; to be flurried; to lose one's head (through shock)
whole; entirety; to begin with; in the first place; ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?")
ceiling; ceiling (e.g. of share price); ceiling price
board; plank; sheet (of metal); plate (of glass); cutting board; chopping board
here and there; in places
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate
figure of a person; figures of people; shadow of a person
shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon); trace
in turns; in series; in order; by rotation
with a plop; with a plonk; with a plunk; with a flop
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)
unchanged (from long ago); as it was in the past; same old; traditional
dirt floor; room with dirt floor; pit (theater seating); parterre
kamidana; household shrine; home shrine
sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica); evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)
to stick into (of something with a sharp point); to prick; to pierce; to resonate emotionally; to move
this and that; one thing or another
in succession; one by one
to close one's eyes partly; to squint; to smile with one's whole face; to smile sweetly (at); to look fondly (at)
there is no way that ...; easy; simple
to stare back at; to look back at
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say everything; to tell all
even though; despite; when
to exterminate; to eradicate; to wipe out; to let (fire) go out; to let die (e.g. flowers); to run out of
to turn toward; to look (up, down, etc.); to face (e.g. east) (of a building, window, etc.); to look out on; to point (of an arrow, compass needle, etc.); to be suited to
sneakily; secretly; stealthily; on the sly
speaking voice; talking voice
phantom; vision; something fleeting; short-lived dream; fabled item; mythical thing
to make good; to improve; to do often; to be kind to; to treat well
practice; experience; habituation; being used to; being comfortable with; being experienced in
to get blurred; to get hoarse; to get husky; to graze; to scrape
to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully
moving (location, with the times, etc.); change; metastasis; spread; transition (e.g. phase transition); transfer (of learning)
obstinate; stubborn; mulish; die-hard; bigoted
hospitalization; hospitalisation