alley; alleyway; path through a gate or garden; teahouse garden
snack; light meal; snack bar (usu. an establishment that serves alcohol); snack food (esp. potato chips, popcorn, etc.); munchie
multi-tenant building; building containing a mixture of businesses, shops and residential apartments
horror film; horror movie
old furniture; curios; secondhand goods
oblong; landscape orientation
to fill to capacity; to pack; to complete; to tessellate
underground; below the ground; world of the dead; the grave; underground (activities, movement, etc.); secret
cave; cavern; den; grotto
aspect; phase; condition; modality
childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate
blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end street; deadlock; impasse; dead end
to hold hands; to join hands; to do together; to go arm in arm; to join forces; to link hands
to listen attentively to; to be absorbed in (listening to)
management; administration; operation
practical use; application; making good use of; conjugation; inflection
secondhand book; ancient book; antiquarian books
small-circulation self-published work
looking for (a suitable thing or person); searching for; hunting out; picking out; shopping around for; searching (a place)
dōjinshi; magazine published by like-minded people; fanzine; zine
independent production (e.g. of a film)
on the occasion of; at the time of; when; during
changing (job, career, lifestyle, social position, beliefs, etc.)
to begin to write; to begin writing; to begin to draw; to begin drawing; to begin painting
to handle; to manage; to deal with; to rear; to look after
through (e.g. an intermediary, a medium); via; over (e.g. a network); across; by way of; by means of
enforcement; implementation; putting into practice; carrying out; operation; working (e.g. working parameters)
secondhand bookshop; secondhand bookstore; secondhand bookseller
author (usu. of a particular book); writer
bring-your-own (e.g. food and drink); carry-on (e.g. luggage)
to row (a boat) to (a pier, shore, etc.); to reach (a goal after considerable effort); to arrive at; to (finally) manage to do
hospitalization; hospitalisation
sickroom; hospital room; ward
to publish a book; to put out a book
is something that; is that which
later; afterwards; future; after one's death; (arch.) descendant