soup ingredients (esp. seafood, tofu, egg)
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
to have a talk; to tell a story
Gion (entertainment district in Kyoto)
Muromachi period (1333-1573)
eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son
awareness of things around one; ability to understand what is going on around oneself; judgment; judgement; discretion
pursuit of knowledge; studying; learning; training; completing a course
to come of age; to become an adult; to become fully qualified; to stand on one's own
Latin-Japanese (e.g. dictionary)
praise; admiration; commendation; approbation
day after day; day in and day out; every single day
dull; uninteresting; dry; insipid; boring; prosaic
to digest; to break down; to break to pieces; to be able to use; to be good at; to finish; to complete
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
lodger who pays nothing for room and board; freeloader; sponger
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
joy; delight; rapture; pleasure; gratification; rejoicing
to pile up; to accumulate
profile; face in profile; face seen from the side; (personal) profile; (biographical) sketch; outline (of someone's life)
perhaps; possibly; maybe; if; in case; in the event that
primness; prim person; clear soup
to change color (esp. leaves, fruit, flowers) (colour); to turn crimson (e.g. leaves in autumn); to begin to redden; to ripen; to grow ripe
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
to cook (esp. grains such as rice, by boiling); to finish cooking
to slurp; to sip (loudly); to sniffle; to sniff
feeling of transparency; sense of translucence
entertainment; performance
composition; construction; formation; makeup; structure; organization
to concern; to be related
order; ordering; beginning; start; foreword; preface
sudden; abrupt; urgent; pressing; steep; sharp; rapid
incremental; step-by-step; gradual; stepwise
construction; building; putting up; erecting; creation; formulation
storm and stress; Sturm und Drang
conquest; domination; mastery