living by oneself; living alone
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
ward; borough; city (in Tokyo); district (e.g. electoral); section; zone (e.g. postal)
apartment building; apartment block; apartment house; apartment
convenience; user-friendliness
clanging; empty; deserted
to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate
willpower; energy; vitality
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved
regret; flesh, blood vessels and fat from around chicken heart (usu. served as yakitori)
to move forward; to move on
guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation
street; quarter; district; area
purple fleshed sweet potato (any one of several different such)
soft serve ice cream (icecream)
to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of
just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street
taste; elegance; appearance; air; the likes of ...; lowly people such as ...
warehouse style; house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud; building a kura storehouse; someone who builds kura storehouses
one's line of sight; one's gaze; one's eyes (looking); glance; gaze; look
decorative ridge-end tile (traditionally bearing the face of a demon and resembling a gargoyle); hideous face
(short) curtain hung at shop entrance; split curtain used to divide spaces in a house; reputation (of a store); good name; goodwill
the same as it was long ago; unchanged; traditional
merchant; store; shop; merchant house; merchant family
to extend; to stretch out; to attend; to participate in; to enrol; to enroll
scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)
historical play; period drama
actual place; actual location; the spot; place where one is currently living
peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic
same feeling; same sentiment; same opinion; sympathy; agreement; concurrence
tourist attraction; sight-seeing area
to cut off; to excise; to tear off; to cut out; to whittle down; to tear out
new and old; incoming and outgoing
to mix with; to be mixed; to be mingled
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
cultural assets; cultural property
(flower) bud; promising young person; budding beauty
to stay at (e.g. hotel); to be docked; to be berthed; to be moored