about to start out; just about to leave or go out; outing; trip
foolish; nonsensical; absurd; ridiculous; trifling
to empty; to vacate; to evacuate
special training; intensive training; crash course
research society; study class (e.g. religious); seminar (e.g. presentation of research)
promoting; increase; advance
to connect; to tie; to fasten; to transfer (phone call)
ancient times; distant past; antiquity
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention
making; forming; cultivating; form; appearance
not quite (right); not very good; somewhat (lacking)
actor; actress; man of wits; clever person; cunning fellow
military history; military annals
all times and places; all ages and countries
to cease; to desist; to cut it out; to lay off (an activity); to drop (a subject) to abolish; to resign
to go mad; to lose one's mind; to get out of order; to go amiss; to go wrong (of a plan or expectation, etc.); to fall through
to say something is all right; to give the all-clear (e.g. to do something)
pet saying; favorite phrase (favorite); stock phrase; manner of talking
group action; collective behavior; collective behaviour; acting as a group
theme; topic; subject matter; motif; project; slogan
trademark gag; trademark routine
lapse of memory; (something) slipping one's mind; forgetting for a moment something one knows well
to hint at; to intimate; to suggest; to allude to; to imply
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
slightly; lightly; thinly; faintly; dimly
premature joy; short-lived elation
white horse; unrefined sake
perhaps; maybe; perchance; by some chance; by any chance
beautification; glorification
fashion; fad; vogue; prevalence (e.g. of a disease)
to take a bath; to have a bath; to take a shower
room allocation; assignment of rooms
just right (time, size, length, etc.)
gathering edible wild plants
to stray into; to lose one's way (and enter); to wander into