ground-breaking; revolutionary; unprecedented; epoch-making
making practical; making useful; implementing
to praise; to extol; to hail; to laud; to celebrate
for now; for the time being; for the present; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion
to devote oneself; to do one thing exclusively; to make a job of; to decide to
applicant; candidate; volunteer
to wake (someone) up (roughly); to rouse out of bed; to awaken (someone) by knocking at the door
intensification; aggravation
fate; destiny; connection; tie; pretext; justification
calmness; composure; presence of mind; stability; steadiness
handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission
Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)
Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE)
fossil; petrifaction; petrification; fossilization
earthenware; unglazed (bisque-fired) earthenware
Asuka period (550-710 CE)
civilization; civilisation; culture; Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)
development; growth; progress; development; expansion (of a typhoon, low-pressure area, etc.); developmental disability
successive generations; successive emperors
to carry over (an issue, decision, work, etc.); to carry forward; to put off; to postpone; to defer
to get out of bed; to show a leg
to (enter and) sit down; to plop oneself down; to plant oneself down; to sit down (and refuse to move); to sit in (in protest)
alert status; emergency alert
to take a breath; to take a short rest
to coil around; to twine around; to cling (to); to follow around; to hang around
erotic; sexy; arousing; risque; sultry
oral instruction; passing information by word-of-mouth; oral tradition
of all things (people, places, days, etc.)
to send; to direct; to dispatch (person, car, etc.); to direct (attention); to turn (spotlight, etc. on)
to get stuck with (some job); to end up with (something unpleasant)
malicious; ill-tempered; unkind; mean; nasty
being reluctant to give out (pay, provide, etc.); giving out grudgingly
to have a reason; to have an excuse
obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of a restaurant)
inheritance; succession; share-alike; inheritance
eruption; volcanic eruption
dwelling; house; home; den (of criminals, demons, etc.); nest
to stop talking; to be silent
(with) only the clothes one happens to wear; (with) only the clothes on one's back; (still) wearing the same clothes as before (e.g. before falling asleep)