next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
convulsion; cramp; spasm; tic; twitch; fit
temple festival; fair; fete day; day related to a particular deity and thought to bring divine blessing to those who celebrate it
to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation
late at night; at a late hour
program (e.g. TV); programme
stage (theatre, theater); scene or setting (e.g. of novel, play, etc.)
to colour; to color; to apply make-up; to decorate; to garnish
miniature light bulb; midget lamp
festival; feast; carnival
to erase; to delete; to turn off (power); to switch off; to extinguish; to put out
invitation; introduction; temptation
quickly and skillfully; to the point; succinctly; concisely
to pick out item(s) from a group to keep
memory; recollection; remembrance; storage
to happen upon (someone or something); to happen to meet
night stall; night shop; night fair
to go past; to pass; to pass by
light; lamp; counter for electric lights
light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence
target practice; marksmanship; target shooting (e.g. at a fair)
failure; mistake; blunder
festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle
one animal (small); (arch.) two-tan bolt of cloth
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
cotton candy; fairy floss; candy floss
candy-coated fruit (usu. a plum) on a stick
ramune; type of lemon soda sold in a Codd-neck bottle; compressed tablet candy
variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.
generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual
bored; having nothing to do; idle
yukata (light cotton kimono worn in the summer or used as a bathrobe)
form of hopscotch in which the player kicks a stone through the course
(game of) leapfrog; leapfrogging
fence; paling; railing; (arch.) fortress
to grow thickly; to be overgrown; to thrive; to grow in abundance
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
to be transparent; to be see-through; to be clear; to be clear (voice, sound)
to be transparent; to leave a gap
contour; outline; summary; outline; looks; features
pitiful; unfortunate; poor; unpardonable; regrettable
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)