lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)
eating with a guest; nominal official (a slighting term)
excitability; irritability
sound sleep; good sleep; quiet sleep
refreshment; something refreshing; welcome relief; tonic; refreshing medicine
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
class; heading; group; category
to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to
to be dying; to be about to die; to be close to death
vinegar, soy sauce and mirin (or sugar) mixed in roughly equal proportions
three times (as much); treble; triple; threefold
to swipe; to nick; to pilfer; to steal
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
particular; special; (not) particularly; (not) especially
julienne (esp. of daikon); long, thin strips
shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa); perilla; beefsteak plant
founder; originator; pioneer
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
surroundings; circumference
to gouge out; to excavate; to hollow; to bore; to drill; to carve (e.g. pumpkin)
great burdock (Arctium lappa); gobo
great burdock (Arctium lappa); gobo
preliminary boiling (of hard-to-cook ingredients); cooking in advance
together; at the same time; same; identical
earnestly; immediately; exactly
tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping); perfectly (suited)
bamboo sheath; bamboo peel
to tie; to bind; to fasten; to restrict (freedom); to tie down (with rules, regulations, etc.); to fetter
otherwise; if not; or else
stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration
corner; edge; (street) corner; turning; rough edges (of one's character, words, etc.); abrasiveness
mirin; type of sweet rice wine used in cooking
small quantity; small amount; narrowmindedness