My words

葉擦れ

Hazure

Leaf rubbing

槌音

Tsuchioto

Hammer sound

喧騒

けんそう

tumult, great noise, clatter, hustle and bustle

耳朶

じだ みみたぶ

earlobe

円形

えんけい まるがた

round shape, circle, circular form

真ん中

まんなか まなか

middle, centre, center, mid-way

そびえ立つ

そびえたつ

to stand towering over the surrounds

蜃気楼

しんきろう

mirage

引っ切り無し

ひっきりなし

continually, continuously, incessantly

両脇

りょうわき

both sides

犇めき合う

ひしめきあう

to crowd together in a confined space, to gather and make a commotion

憩い

いこい

rest

求める

もとめる

to want, to wish for, to request, to demand, to seek, to search for, to pursue (pleasure), to hunt (a job), to purchase, to buy

屋台

やたい

cart (esp. a food cart), stall, stand, festival float, portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house, dancing platform, stage prop fashioned after a large building, framework (of a house, etc.), house (esp. a small and miserable house)

酒場

さかば

bar, bar-room

店先

みせさき

storefront, shopfront

花を咲かせる

はなをさかせる

to make lively, to become animated, to have fun talking about something, to become successful and well known

猥雑

わいざつ

confusion, disorder

隘路

あいろ

defile, narrow path, bottleneck

重層的

じゅうそうてき

stratified, multilayered

張り巡らす

はりめぐらす

to stretch around (e.g. a fence, dragnet, etc.), to lay out (e.g. a wiring system, network, to string up (e.g. an antenna, ship's rigging

工房

こうぼう

workshop, studio

軒

のき けん

counter for buildings (esp. houses), suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.

連ねる

つらねる

to line up, to put in a row, to add (to a group), to accept (as a member of an organization, etc.), to join (e.g. a list), to link, to put together, to string together (e.g. compliments), to enumerate, to take along with, to bring with

裏通り

うらどおり うらとおり

side street (often parallel to a main street), back street, alley

迷い込む

まよいこむ

to go astray, to lose one's way

枚挙

まいきょ

enumeration

暇

ひま いとま ヒマ

spare time, free time, leisure, time (e.g. time it takes to do something), time off, day off, vacation, holiday, leave, quitting (one's job), firing someone, divorcing (one's spouse), (of one's time) free, (of one's business) slow, leaving, departing

枚挙に暇が無い

まいきょにいとまがない

too many to count, too numerous to mention

住人

じゅうにん

dweller, inhabitant, resident