support; backing; endorsement; propping up; holding up; support
friendly; easy to get on with; easy to talk to; easy to like
glorious; honourable; splendid
to well up; to burst; to arise
flash (esp. of a camera); flashlight; very short scene in a film or TV show; newsflash
brilliant; splendid; glorious; magnificent; spectacular
outflow; effluence; efflux; outflow (of people, capital, etc.); drain (of gold, talent, etc. from a country); leak (e.g. of personal information)
with a sting; with a tingle; nervously; tensely; with a rip; with a ripping sound
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook
contents of a document (esp. of a letter)
to give (as a gift); to present; to confer; to bestow; to award
insular; closed; unsociable; exclusive
extinction (e.g. of a family); dying out; discontinuation; severance (e.g. of relations); rupture; breaking off
to leave (a note, will, etc.) behind; to leave (a manuscript, etc.) unfinished; to leave half-written; to forget to write; to leave out
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861; woodblock artist)
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)
prizing; valuing highly; esteeming
purveyor (to the Imperial Household, etc.); company (or restaurant, place, etc.) that caters to or is popular with a specific clientele
mid-Edo period Imari ware
dyeing; printing; blue and white ceramics (china, porcelain)
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
to carry on one's shoulder; to shoulder; to bear; to bear (a burden, responsibility, etc.); to take upon oneself
by your leave; with your permission
great achievement; great feat; great work; great undertaking
to accomplish; to achieve; to complete; to carry out; to carry through
to boil strongly; to be excited
bleachers; grandstand; spectator seating
to carry into (esp. an injured person into a hospital); to take into; to bring into
flapping of wings; wingbeat; flap; flutter
to stray into; to lose one's way (and enter); to wander into
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around
crematory; place where things are burned
highway; freeway; expressway; motorway