welcome!; nice to see you!
coming; going; being (somewhere); come; go; stay
counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
appetizer; later date; post-dating (e.g. a letter or cheque)
Suruga (former province located in the central and northern parts of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)
(giving) birth; childbirth; native of; product of; assets; property
shredded dried plum; plum pulp
hot taste; sharp taste; pungent taste; salty taste
daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus); ham actor
top-quality sake brewed from rice grains milled to 50% of weight or less
slowly; unhurriedly; without haste; leisurely; at one's leisure
to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)
kuruma prawn (Marsupenaeus japonicus); kuruma shrimp; Japanese tiger prawn
food (meat, fish, vegetables, etc.) cooked separately but served together on one dish
tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony
to obey respectfully; to humble oneself; to sit straight (upright, respectfully, attentively)
fusuma; Japanese sliding screen
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight
serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
to that extent; accordingly; that being the case; that state; that condition
colouring; coloring; sex appeal (esp. of women); sexiness; interest in the opposite sex; sexual feelings; charm
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
to master (e.g. a skill); to become accustomed to (e.g. a lifestyle); to acquire (e.g. a habit); to retain
first and last (time, chance, etc.); (the) only
end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)
to do wholeheartedly; to put one's heart into something
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
worry; concern; anxiety; care; help; aid
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
kneeling down on the ground; prostrate oneself
to apologize; to apologise
to mediate; to intervene; to smooth
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
one; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved