Hiroshima Peace Memorial; A-Bomb Dome; Genbaku Dome
Japan's three famous sights
Aki (former province located in the west of present-day Hiroshima Prefecture)
extensive knowledge; erudition
to be relieved; to feel relieved
interchange; service interchange
to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.); to switch (to a different system, method, etc.); to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)
junction; system interchange (between highways)
south side of a mountain; Sanyo district
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
route; path; channel (e.g. sales, distribution)
that road (path, street, way, etc.); that line (of business); that profession; love affairs; romance
drive; trip by car; to (go for a) drive; to go on a trip by car; to drive (e.g. a car); to drive (innovation, change, etc.)
to call in; to invite; to bring in
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
diagonally upward; (going in a) completely unexpected direction (of a story, result, etc.)
fine weather; fair weather
Hyogo (prefecture); armory; armoury; arsenal
brightness; discernment; insight; eyesight; vision; nth year in the Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
good fortune; happiness; blessing; good luck
field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
light snow fall; small snow flakes
accelerator; accelerator pedal; gas pedal
to float; to save (on one's expenses); to scrimp; to half-rise, e.g. to one's feet
to take seriously; to take someone at their word; to believe (to be true)
feast; treating (someone); to treat (someone, e.g. to a meal)
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
pinch; crisis; tough spot; clothespin
waking up; awakening; arousal; disillusion; disillusionment; awakening
to take a veneer off something
faint; trance; swoon; stupefaction
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
Okayama (city, prefecture)
Hiroshima prefecture (Chūgoku area)
tail (animal, kite, comet, etc.); tail end; slope at the foot of a mountain
Ozu Yasujirō (1903.12.12-1963.12.12)