close investigation; careful examination; scrutiny
hint; suggestion; clue; suggestion
beyond this point; ahead; from now on; after this; in the future
ancient civilization; ancient civilisation
suggestion; hint; implication
east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!
gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees
to reach back into one's memory; to search one's mind; to recall
suspicious glance; suspicious look; suspicious expression
east, west, south and north
bow (of a boat); prow; stem; head
without gaps; closely packed; always; usually; often; frequently
resembling ...; having the traits or characteristics of ...; -looking; with a ...-like expression; with an air of ...
castle (in place names); castle; fortress
change; transition; vicissitudes
absolutely; definitely; unconditionally
source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
intuition; instinct; hunch
to play a hand game (e.g. rock, paper, scissors)
to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous; to be absurd
to check (in chess); to threaten (someone's position, etc.); to close in (on someone)
to grow thickly; to be in full leaf; to be rampant; to luxuriate; to be luxurious
(beheading) block; guillotine; scaffold
to row; to paddle; to pedal (a bicycle, etc.); to swing (on a swing); to work (a hand pump); to push through (a thicket, deep snow, etc.)
reply (to a letter); response; answer
mountain's surface; bare surface of a mountain
to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
mountain road; mountain trail
end (e.g. of a line); tail end; rear; backmost part
to stagger; to stumble; to waver; to be in two minds; to have an affair (with); to fall (for someone)
to grimace; to make a wry face; to contort one's face
vagrant; vagabond; drifter
but; however; even though; even if
daytime; during the day; Japan and China; Japanese-Chinese; Sino-Japanese
high mountain; alpine mountain
muddy water; red-light district