sudden; abrupt; urgent; pressing; steep; sharp; rapid
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause
circulation; dissemination
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
foot of a mountain; base of a mountain
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; worthy
normally; ordinarily; by anyone's standards; by normal standards; without any issues; without any difficulty
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
in fact; as a matter of fact; actually; in reality; to tell the truth
intelligence; cleverness; innate aptitude
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
upper stream; upper course; upstream; upper classes
place; spot; field; discipline; occasion; situation; scene (of a play, movie, etc.)
to fly about; to skip about; to bustle about
Japanese spirea (Spiraea Japonica); meadowsweet; Shimotsuke (former province located in present-day Tochigi Prefecture)
resemblance; similarity; likeness; analogy
agreement; concurrence; conformance; compliance
Tosa (former province located in present-day Kochi Prefecture)
flag; pataka (banner); banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)
the same; the said; likewise
to rock the left hand (to produce vibrato on a koto, etc.)
abdomen; belly; womb; one's mind; one's real intentions; courage; nerve
to transcribe; to duplicate; to describe; to film; to picture
to advance; to move forward; to carry forward (plans, work, etc.); to proceed with; to raise; to elevate
to be delighted; to be glad; to congratulate; to gratefully accept
Yamagata prefecture (Tōhoku area)
avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
cattle or horse trader; good judge of horses or cattle
to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along
to imitate; to copy; to enter someone as a candidate; to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back); to compare; to liken
doubt; distrust; suspicion (of)
(arch.) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (arch.) South-East Asia; (arch.) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions
Niigata prefecture (Hokuriku area)
capsicum (Capsicum annuum, esp. the cultivated chili peppers); chili pepper (chile, chilli); cayenne; shichimi pepper
Iwate prefecture (Tōhoku area)