clear broth soup, with ingredients and garnish floating in and on it
food and (alcoholic) drinks; food eaten with an alcoholic drink; accompaniment to a drink
main course (of a formal meal); extremely high-grade Japanese meal served all at once (on a table with legs)
high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine
jōruri; type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater)
appearance; look; a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune; aspect; phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous)
affectation; showiness; pretence
one long cylindrical thing; one film, TV show, etc.; one version; one book; a certain book; ippon; one point
to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one
to wind around; to wrap around; to coil around
dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye); indigo (dye); indigo (colour)
vertical stripes; striped fabric
fully; luxuriantly; fluffy; plump; soft and full; corpulent
to bend loosely back and forth; to wriggle; to be crooked
sitting with one's legs out to one side
relatives; one's family; friends; members of the same organization; followers; henchmen
to feel hot; to flush; to burn
breast; chest; pit of the stomach; solar plexus; epigastrium
to open (e.g. one's robe); to bare (e.g. one's chest); to open up (of clothing); to be exposed; (arch.) to open wide (one's legs, eyes, mouth, etc.); (arch.) to stretch
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to wet; to moisten; to dampen; to soak; to dip
brat; kid; urchin; preta; hungry ghost
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
pose (in kabuki); posture
views; opinion; discernment; pride; self-respect
to draw or pull something towards oneself (e.g. chair)
to gulp down (a drink); to slurp
(plain) hot water; boiled water
bun (hairstyle); chignon; topknot
wearing one's hair knotted in the back
tuft of hair under temple; sideburns; sidelocks
like an old man; doddering; wizened; frowzy; seedy
moustache; beard; whiskers (on a cat, etc.); feelers (on an insect, etc.); shadow (on a candlestick chart)
blackish; darkish; dark; dusky
to shade; to graduate; to tint; to put on stage makeup; to make up (one's face)
to turn upwards; to leave a clean aftertaste
wound suffered in a fight
to bear; to carry on one's back; to take responsibility for; to accept a duty; to receive (wound); to incur (damage)