tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony
to ask; to enquire; to query
to call; to invite; to eat; to drink; to put on; to wear; to ride
umeboshi; pickled dried ume; pickled dried plum
soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch
dated; date; fixed; external
rural beauty; rusticity; rustic beauty
annotation; explanatory note; comment
ten thousand years; eternity; perennial; perpetual
substitution; material; price; margin (e.g. for stapling, etc.); area required for something; (arch.) shiro (unit of land area equal to one-fiftieth of a tan; approx. 19.83 m.sq.)
greens; vegetables; rape (Brassica napus); rapeseed
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
reformation; revolution; renewal; Meiji Restoration
once and for all; completely; spotlessly
(idle) curiosity; fancifulness; whimsy; (having) strange tastes
opening a new shop; opening a shop (for the day)
paper lantern that can be hung outside of a house or store
not up with the times; out of touch
one portion; one serving; adult; grown-up; fully fledged; established
clear broth soup, with ingredients and garnish floating in and on it
reasonably; fairly; hurriedly; in a rush; approximately; about
personage; person (deserving of respect)
lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end
bamboo shoot; inexperienced doctor; quack
noted product; local specialty
Acala (Wisdom King); Āryācalanātha; Fudō; fierce Buddhist deity
thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack
to make something be done in time
in the background; not standing out
to be on the verge; to be on the brink; to get close
ryotei; traditional Japanese restaurant (esp. a luxurious one)
request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance
(arch.) to carve; (arch.) to engrave; to publish; to author
group; (free) radical; counter for installed or mounted objects (e.g. stone lanterns, gravestones, satellites)
loach or eel dipped and broiled in soy-based sauce
distant land; remote country; province far from the capital
smell and taste; flavour; flavor
seasoning; flavoring; flavouring; addition; inclusion; taking into account
out-of-place; inappropriate; sticking out like a sore thumb
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
one's surroundings; surrounding area
to boil; to decoct; to infuse