tempura flour (flour mixed with starch, etc.)
thin dipping sauce for tempura
Lights are usually followed by shadows
shellfish removed from the shell; shucked shellfish
bowl of eel and rice (donburi)
first period (e.g. first class in school day)
seafood seasoned with salt and sake then steamed
to oil (e.g. a frying pan); to grease
pushing forward (undaunted, bravely); working vigorously towards an aim; struggling on; striving towards
to bolt down (food); to gulp down; to shovel (into one's mouth)
overseas assignment; overseas posting
to be very surprised; to be flabbergasted
Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933)
feelings; emotion; compassion; sympathy; passion; affection
food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kudzu or katakuriko flour)
to flavor; to flavour; to season
exceeding one's authority; abusing one's legal authority; ultra vires activities
grated daikon; daikon grater
tempura donburi; tempura served over a bowl of rice; (in comedy) repeating the same gag or silly line
class president; head class representative
chewiness; firmness; feel of food while being chewed; challenge (e.g. work, book); toughness
porcelain bowl; donburi; bowl of meat, fish, etc. served over rice
tonkatsu; breaded pork cutlet
oyakodon; chicken and egg on rice; threesome including a mother and her daughter
portrait of deceased person
job transfer away from one's home; taking up a new post leaving one's family behind
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
to dissolve (paint); to scramble (eggs); to melt (metal, etc.); to mix (water with flour, etc.)
order; turn; sorting; obedient; docile; submissive
hurriedly; in a hurry; in haste; (arch.) sudden
wrong; different; not like that
direct transmission (of mystery, skill, secret, etc.); initiation
good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)