orange pekoe (grade of black tea)
irritating; annoying; tedious (work, person, etc.); boring; depressing; dark (e.g. story)
cat hater; dislike of cats
resolute; determined; bold
even and odd numbers (on dice); chō-han; gambling game in which two dice are thrown and players bet on whether the total is odd or even
to take measures; to work out a plan; to lecture; to read aloud; to confer
(of a couple) fighting and splitting up
red-hot iron; gunfire; gambling; violent-tempered
smelling of fish; fishy; degenerate (of a monk); depraved; worldly; mundane
anybody can look good with the right clothes; clothes make the man; fine feathers make fine birds; (lit.) clothes on a packhorse driver
family which supports a temple; parishioner
pavement café; sidewalk café; open-air café
hostess (in a hostess bar)
(finishing something) suddenly; abruptly
offering a prize; prize competition; prize; reward
can be; can exist; can stay; cannot help but ...
absent-mindedly; vacantly; idly; lazily
to marry (a woman); to take to wife; to take in marriage
Japanese (people, language, style)
first thing in the morning
look who's talking; I don't want to hear it from you; are you in any position to say that?
work in a Zen temple (e.g. cleaning, working in the fields)
job transfer away from one's home; taking up a new post leaving one's family behind
blowing repeatedly (e.g. to cool something down); huffing and puffing; puffing and panting; struggling (with work, studies, etc.); having difficulty
self-service drink area in a restaurant (incl. soft drinks, coffee, tea, etc.)
large; gland; ground (e.g. land, electrical, base material of textiles, etc.)
to work hard; to make an effort
what; what sort of thing; everything; anything; what (on earth)?; what's the meaning of this ...?