extended-hours childcare (in day-care centers for parents working into the night)
calorie counting; calorie calculation
pot; (arch.) typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period; working at night; female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite)
intimacy; familiarity; closeness
rice cooking; boiling rice
outing; excursion; pleasure trip; going on a picnic
meat sauce; Bolognese sauce
drawing; painting; doodling; sketching
for two people; (work) of two; (meals) for two
please sit down; please have a seat
pongee; soft thin cloth woven from raw silk
ouch!; hot, hot, hot!; something hot; fire
gradations (on a ruler, thermometer, etc.); division; scale
convenience store lunch box
campground; campsite; camping-ground
one meal; one meal (a day)
quiz; short test; mini test
poop; faeces; feces; crap; trash; garbage
to be crowded; to be packed; to be jammed
full stomach; bellyful; (eat) heartily; to one's heart's content
to view (cherry) blossoms; to look at flowers
sense of duty (obligation)
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
perfect; perfection; perfect game
cherry blossom viewing; flower viewing
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
focusing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely; selfish; self-serving
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
to run out of; to be short of; to be out of stock; to be out of (e.g. breath); to lose (one's patience, concentration, etc.)
righteous government; just rule; easy method; simple approach; orthodox way; proper way
aloneness; loneliness; solitude
wisdom; enlightenment; prajñā (one of the three divisions of the noble eightfold path); wisdom