box lunch (containing rice and 10-15 small portions of fish, meat, and vegetables)
minute; fine; delicate; accurate; precise; elaborate
difficult to be (in a place); not feeling like staying
great many; ever so many; any number; as few or as many (as you like); whether large or small
underground; unconventional; radical; shady
in a little bit; after a short while
to sew up; to sew together
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
emergence (of insects); eclosion; growing wings
pretending not to know; feigning ignorance
slow; clumsy; stupid; irritating
out of control; uncontrollable
premature death; untimely death; dying young
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582.6.21)
sound of something striking repeatedly (e.g. wooden clappers); something small hopping repeatedly; touching lightly and repeatedly; punctuation marks such as the dakuten; Chonchon; South American mythical bird
Common Era; CE; Christian Era; Western (Gregorian) calendar
discount; reduction; rebate; tenths discounted; tenths reduced
to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate
young bird; chick; fledgling; hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival
making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi
allowance; remittance; sending (someone) an allowance
shhh! (sound used when getting someone to shut up); shoo! (sound used to drive animals away)
Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568 CE); Sengoku period; Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE); era of vicious competition
to border; to fringe; to hem; to edge
strike (e.g. in baseball, bowling)
idling; lazing; slovenly; flirting; philandering; womanizing
buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles
sun; saint; San (people); son
delinquent (youth); delinquency; Yankee
proceeding to the capital (Tokyo)
burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach; collapse; washout; rupture