to wake up; to awake; to awaken to (instinct, ability, perception, etc.); to become aware of; to come to one's senses
to fuss over; to be particular about; to be obsessive about; to be fixated on; to obstruct; to hinder
pickles made in brine and fermented rice bran (esp. vegetables, also meat, fish, eggs, etc.)
to garnish; to accompany (as a card does a gift); to add to as support; to prop up; to accompany (as an aid, guide, translator, etc.); (arch.) to mimic
vegetables pickled in sake lees
that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there
setting up specially; special installation
Japanese pepper (species of Sichuan pepper, Zanthoxylum piperitum); Japanese prickly ash
tingling; stinging; pungently
tired; frazzled; tiresome; tiring; draining
supermarket; subtitles; telop; superheterodyne; super
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
at any rate; in any case; at the very least; if nothing else
comfortably warm; steaming hot (food); piping hot; glowing (with warmth)
loach or eel dipped and broiled in soy-based sauce
to blow off (strongly); to blow away; to drive away (e.g. one's worries); to dispel; to do at great speed (e.g. drive a car); to carry out (a task) very quickly
body; oneself; one's place; one's position; main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.)
to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve
to advance; to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to improve; to deepen
appearing drowsy or intoxicated (of eyes, actions, etc.)
fat; tallow; lard; grease
not quite (right); not very good; somewhat (lacking)
air con; air conditioner; air conditioning
to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
impossible; unlikely; improbable
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
to work hard; to sweat; to wash off one's sweat
to hurry; to rush; to hasten; to make something happen sooner
once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone
outside of; not covered by
cowering; recoiling; overwhelmed
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity
to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up
shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player
squirrel (any mammal of family Sciuridae); Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)
rice and curry; curry rice
imagination; supposition; guess
opposite effect; adverse effect; backfiring