looks; personal appearance; features
every month; trite; commonplace; conventional
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
junior college; vocationally oriented two or three year post-secondary education institution
appropriate; adequate; suitable; fitting; worthy
education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education
to give (time, money, goods); to donate; to do; to perform; to apply (processing, makeup, etc.); to add (e.g. ornamentation, annotation)
woman who missed the chance of getting married (because one is too old)
to have a feeling (that); to have a sensation (that)
failure; rejection; rupture
proper; appropriate; due; suitable
dissatisfaction; discontent; displeasure; complaint; unhappiness
to be inferior to; to be less good at; to fall behind
to rise (suddenly) in the world (to a higher position)
well-known; famous; noted; popular; recognized
poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious
farmer; peasant; farming; the common people
property; fortune; means; assets
corresponding to (in meaning, function, etc.); being equivalent to; appropriate; suitable; to be proportionate to; to be in keeping with
to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)
to have a talk; to tell a story
marriage ceremony; wedding
antipathy; antagonism; animosity; revulsion; ill feeling
inferior; base; vulgar; low grade; lower class
race; tribe; species; genus; stellar population (i.e. population I, II and III)
clothes for doing farm work or working in fields
milk; breast; loop; decorative bump (on a hanging bell)
to show; to bare (the teeth)
to hold a child in one's arms; to embrace a child; to provide for a child (children)
hostility; animosity; enmity
impatience; uneasiness; irritation; fretfulness
to push up; to force up; to pressure one's superiors; to burst out (of emotions, etc.); to fill one's heart
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
marriageable age; chance of marriage
mochi; (sticky) rice cake
to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)
pride; self-confidence; thinking highly of oneself; being proud of one's abilities or achievements
social standing of a family; lineage; parentage; good family