lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)
measure; square (e.g. of graph paper or Japanese manuscript paper); box (e.g. on a form)
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
shaku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 ml; shaku; traditional unit of area, approx. 0.033 meters square
ladle; dipper; wild chervil (Anthriscus sylvestris); cow parsley; keck
ration; stipend; allowance
entrusting (everything to); leaving (a matter) entirely with
to hit (a person); to strike; to beat; to deliver (a speech); to give (an address)
to divide (into); to split (into); to share; to distribute; to distinguish; to discriminate; to break up (a fight)
height; stature; length (esp. of clothing); all (one has); everything; magnificence (of a waka poem, etc.)
chest; coffer; rice tub; lidded round, wooden container for cooked rice
distorted; crooked; oval; elliptical shape; round, wooden container for cooked rice; oval coin
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
(arch.) gourd; (arch.) calabash; (arch.) bottle gourd; dried gourd, used as flask
to swing; to wield (physically); to exercise (e.g. power, ability); to exhibit; to flourish; to prosper
bowl; vessel; container; ability; capacity; calibre
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker
making a rough estimate in one's head; expectation; anticipation
to rank with; to rank among
far away; far off; far; long ago; long before
transport; transportation; conveyance; carriage
to bring; to take (something) along; to fetch; to get
to drive a bargain; to beat down the price; to haggle
expansion; extension; enlargement; escape; ESC
just before noon; late-morning snack
to carry out (of somewhere); to transport; to take out
ancient times (e.g. Heian and Nara periods in Japan); remote ages; early history; (nominal) retail price
just before noon; late-morning snack
where; what place; how much (long, far); what extent
3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma
Etchū (former province located in present-day Toyama Prefecture)
accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation
spilling; spill; leavings; leftovers
eating between meals; snacking