composition; piece of music; tune; melody; enjoyment; fun
Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)
white hair; grey hair; gray hair
to change; to exchange; to convert; to renew; to throw a switch; to replace
strength and weakness; (degree of) strength; stress (of a sound); loudness
stoppage; coming to a stop; ceasing (movement, activity, etc.); suspension (of operations); suspension (of payment, licence, etc.); (temporary) prohibition
rate; ratio; comparatively; contrary to expectations
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
custom; general rule; convention; usually; generally; as a rule
renewal; replacement; regeneration; metabolism
retailing; repeating (someone else's words, opinion, etc.); parroting; echoing
to abbreviate; to omit; to take; to capture
saying nothing; understanding tacitly; without putting into words
declaration; indication; representation; manifestation; demonstration; expression
inference; deduction; induction; reasoning
private person; individual
man; male; masculine gender
to be evident; to be obvious; to understand completely
mutually; reciprocally; together
millennium; one thousand years; (fig.) long time
similar instance; similar case; parallel case; analogy
every single word and phrase; word by word
(not) altogether; (not) wholly
what I want to say is ...; the fact of the matter is ...; none other than ...
to screw up; to put the screws on (a person); to constrict (someone, something)
to be dead; to be lifeless
to wring the neck; to strangle
(bowing and) greeting; (arch.) declining; (arch.) refusing
(period of) a year; during an era
intimacy; sexual intercourse
great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty
respect; esteem; reverence; honour; honor
to get back; to regain; to recover; to make up (for); to catch up on
with an extreme cold (i.e. temperature); lonelily; lonesomely; (acting) coldly (toward someone)
to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal
to throw (liquid) at; to dash; to inundate (with questions); to heap (praise); to hurl (abuse)
simultaneous; concurrent; same time; synchronous; together
way of speaking; intimation; lips; mouth; snout
nonchalant; unconcerned; in a casual manner
armchair theory; impracticable theory
suitable; proper; appropriate; perfunctory; half-minded; sloppy