show; performance; show; exhibition; TV show
lovely; wonderful; charming; enchanting; nice; great
illumination; decorative lighting
in the meantime; meanwhile
turning to the left; left turn
the opposite direction; the other way
to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)
one scene; one frame; one shot; one cell; one panel (comic)
rise and fall; ups and downs; shame and glory; bright side and dark side; (lit.) light and shadow
naturally; in due course; by itself; of its own accord
screen (of a TV, computer, etc.); image (on a screen); picture; surface of a painting (picture, drawing, etc.)
flickering; flashing on and off; glaringly (bright); painfully (bright); prickling (pain)
to twinkle (e.g. stars); to flicker; to waver; to blink (one's eyes); to wink; to bat
whoosh (of water); hiss (of a cat, snake, etc.); sizzle
background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)
clotted blood; gore; sticky clots of blood
scene; view; prospect; outlook
to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle
to swing; to sway; to shake; to waver; to feel shaken; to become unstable
innumerable; countless; numberless
to have one's breath taken away; to gasp (in surprise, wonder, etc.); to have one's breath catch in one's throat; to gulp
to gaze (at); to stare intently (at); to look fixedly (at); to fascinate; to enchant; to possess
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
sound; noise; audio; acoustics; reverberation
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote
to enter; to come in; to join (a club, company, etc.); to enter (a university, the army, etc.); to be contained (in); to be included (in); to (be able to) fit (in a container, building, etc.)
deep blue; bright blue; ghastly pale; pallid; white as a sheet
bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
to press; to oppress; to dominate; to overwhelm
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)
stretching a rope around; roping off; one's turf; domain; territory (of an animal)
Ogyū Sorai (1666-1728; Confucian scholar)
revelatory dream; revelation; a vision
degenerate age; corrupt world; age of the decline of Buddhism; latter days of the law