wearing one's hair up; coming-of-age ceremony where 12 to 13-year-old girls get their long hair tied up; wearing one's hair up with a hairpin (type of hairstyle used by court ladies)
synthetic fiber; synthetic fibre; chemical fiber; chemical fibre
best; extra-fine; superfine; exceptionally; extraordinarily; by far
even if nothing else; more than anything else
manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour)
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
art project which is done in place of a graduation thesis at a college of arts
opening of a park (theme park, botanical garden etc.)
isn't it; right?; you know?
fertilized egg; fertilised egg
no matter what; whatever you say; in the end
employer's house; master's house
board or officer's meeting
expansion and contraction; elasticity; flexibility
excerpt; extract; annotation; shō (unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml)
pattern paper (for dressmaking)
trendy; in; now; currently at ...; now doing ...; in the middle of ...
white-eye family of birds (Zosteropidae); Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)
make-up; making food (in a delivery-only restaurant); cooking
(written) application; written request; petition; written prayer for a shrine or Buddhist temple
hairline; borders of the hair