(company's) main financing bank; principal bank
chance meeting; fortuitous encounter
honeybee (Apis sp.); honey bee
peak period; pinnacle; prime; zenith; glory days
Kazusa (former province located in the central part of present-day Chiba Prefecture)
green light (traffic); green light; go-ahead signal; permission to go ahead (with something)
to follow; to shadow; to hanker after; to hover around
ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples; rice dance; rice festival; tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso; turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-tofu on both sides
to start an act (of a play); to have curtains open; to have an (event, period of history, etc.) start
India; cotton sheeting; foreign; imported; ultra-spicy; extra hot
miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.); cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.); (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors
chef (esp. of high-end Japanese cuisine); cook; area of a kitchen that contains the chopping board
aroma; class; style; aromatherapy
to go on about (one's love affairs); to speak proudly of (one's spouse, girlfriend, etc.); to speak fondly of
purity; homogeneity; unadorned
maiko; apprentice geisha; dancing girl
cooking class; cookery school
son (of others); boy; young master; green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world
to wear glasses; to put on glasses
to begin to attend (e.g. school)
first class plus; extra special
great depth; bottomless; great height
living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet
entirely useless; completely worthless; no no; don't!
unshapely; unsightly; clumsy; unpresentable; uncouth; awkward
to gather; to collect; to assemble
to incur divine punishment; to pay for one's sins; you'll pay for that!; what goes around, comes around
sushi; anything made with vinegared rice (may also contain vegetables, spices, fish, or other delicacies)
wicked thought; wicked mind
ryotei; traditional Japanese restaurant (esp. a luxurious one)
nationality; citizenship; nationality (ship, airplane, etc.); registration; flag