event, incident / matter, affair / scandal

listening ear; attentive ear

directness

direct

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

聞き手: audience, interviewer, listener / 利き手: dominant hand

lumberjack

菊: chrysanthemum / 起句: first section of a poem