briquette (charcoal or coal)
manners; behavior; behaviour
cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with (skillfully); handling (well); managing
item; article; dish; course; finest item
returnee (esp. Japanese person repatriated to Japan proper from its former colonies after WWII); repatriate
borscht (soup, usu. made with beetroot); borsch
entering; entrance; attendance; audience; containing; income; earnings
absence; disregard; indifference
alcohol; alcoholic drink; alcohol; (alcohol-based) hand sanitizer
indifferent; half-hearted; dispirited; listless
taste (in fashion, music, etc.); sense (e.g. of humour); flair
half-open; partly open; semicivilized; semicivilised
valley; ravine; cleavage (of breasts); part or place that has been left behind; blind spot
to run over (with a vehicle); to knock down
stifled (laughter); simmering
to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe
up through; up until; down to; from ... to ... (e.g. from head to toe); everything from ... to ...
refinement; elegance; grace
male; manly; brave; larger (of the two); greater; (arch.) man
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
street stall; stand; booth
(foreign) concession (in China); settlement
Western-style house (esp. one built in the Meiji or Taisho periods)
to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to become complicated
confirmed as completed; everything must go (e.g. in a sale)
free talk; irresponsible talk
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904; Irish-Greek-born Japanese writer); Koizumi Yakumo
Western Europe; the West; the Occident; Europe
letter; note; epistle; correspondence
to regard (as); to recognize (as); to see as; to pay attention to; to watch