carefree; optimistic; careless; reckless; heedless; happy-go-lucky
to make a fool of someone
to leave (something) undone; to neglect (a duty, task, etc.); to break (a promise, appointment, etc.); to stand (someone) up
tatami room; dinner party in a tatami room with a geisha or maiko
Chinese-style low dining table; Japanese-Chinese cuisine, served family-style (large dishes, diners help themselves), specialty of Nagasaki Chinese style low dining table; soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc.
hedge; fence; border; limit
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
to clear away; to remove; to demolish
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal
to get to know each other; to make acquaintance
losing everything; coming to nothing; having lost the interest and the principal
regrettable; vexing; upsetting; unthinkable; wholly unexpected
to bump heads; to bump into each other; to collide head-on; to meet by chance; to encounter; to run into
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
Ardisia crenata; coralberry
channel (e.g. between two land masses); strait
to a great extent; incredibly (tasty, much, etc.); (money) to burn; rolling in (cash)
to pierce; to penetrate; to sting (wound or sensitive area, etc.); to smart; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice)
to make an enemy (of); to antagonize
resentment; grudge; malice; matter for regret; regret
aviary; henhouse; chicken house
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
kiheitai (irregular militia during the Bakumatsu period)
one more; another; the other; not quite; not very good
to miss (capturing); to fail to catch; to let slip
to seize; to capture; to arrest; to hold down; to subdue
mochi; (sticky) rice cake
attack; offence; dominant partner of a homosexual relationship; a barrage of; a flood of
(one's) whereabouts; destination; where one is headed; outcome; course (of events); future
opening a port (seaport, airport, etc.); starting operations at a port; opening a port to foreign vessels or trade
to be crowded with people; to be bustling with; to prosper; to flourish; to do thriving business
international; worldwide; cross-border; cosmopolitan
social meeting place; watering hole