shishito pepper (variety of Capsicum annuum)
caustic soda; sodium hydroxide
no holds barred; anything goes; no limits
being Instagrammable; looking good on Instagram
sweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama); millet dumplings
mille crêpes (French cake made from layers of crêpes)
rise; increase; income; takings; completion; end; end result (e.g. of crafts)
butterfly net; net for catching insects
hundred-yen store; 100 yen shop
an adult-age eldest son who has yet to come into his inheritance; (a young adult still) living at home; a dependent
(unrefined) brown sugar; muscovado
to sit; to squat; to be implicated
cry (of baby); mewl (of kitten)
tie-dye; tie-dyeing; aperture (e.g. camera, iris of the eye); aperture stop; contraction; squeezing
grains; lumps; granulated; lumpy; bumpiness
househusband; stay-at-home dad
kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
this world; this life; the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.); this corrupt world; present world
absent-mindedly; vacantly; idly; lazily
green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor); Japanese pheasant
suddenly; all of a sudden; abruptly
model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.); type; style; mold (mould); template; kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)
leader of a crime syndicate's henchmen; young leading subordinate in yakuza group
burning at the stake; burning to death
member (esp. of a criminal organization); gang member; gangster; yakuza; crime syndicate member
research project (e.g. at school); independent research
(Internet) troll; disturber; raising havoc; laying waste; robbery; holdup
immense; awesome; enormous; terrific
odd; strange; queer; peculiar