long run (of a film, play, product, etc.)
Shinkage-Ryu (style of Japanese fencing)
fishy; dubious; questionable; false-looking
lyric poetry; lyric poem; ode
divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century)
piroshki (Russian pierogi; meat and eggs, etc. baked in bread)
Burgundy (wine); Bourgogne
full-bodied (e.g. wine, sake); rich; robust (flavor); full-flavored
1,000,000,000,000; one trillion
famous product; widely known (local) specialty
to travel all over; to be active in places widely apart
established; fixed; prearranged; predetermined
Tochigi (city, prefecture)
French bread (esp. baguette); breadstick
way of the sword; swordsmanship
such; like that; in that way
food culture; dietary culture; cuisine
comparatively; quite; rather; rate; ratio; percentage
Bushido; samurai code of chivalry
unreasonably stubborn; not knowing when to give up
to be duplicated; to be repeated; to overlap; to fall together (of dates, etc.); to repeat (a failed course, school year, etc.); to make a double play
to fall down (e.g. off a chair); to slip down (e.g. one's eyeglasses); to make a fool of oneself; to whoop it up; to be on the spree
strange; weird; odd; strange thing; strange person
good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
to pull apart; to separate; to draw; to tie (a game)
to invite; to ask (someone to do); to call (for); to tempt; to lure; to entice
counter for birds, rabbits, etc.
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; victory; strictness; cruelty