maid; helper; help; assistance
one's house; one's home; one's family
completely satisfied; as pleased as can be
to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind
master (of a house, shop, etc.); husband; sir; boss; patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy
person inside a cartoon body suit; voice actor; insider
salty; calculating; stingy; scowling; grimacing; hoarse
aromatic (roasted beans, roasted tea, etc.); fragrant (e.g. burning wood); pleasant-smelling; savory-smelling (e.g. barbecued meat); savoury; appetizing
good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
finish; finishing; finishing touches
thin dipping sauce for tempura
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; considerate; kind; genial
to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
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)
how; in what way; by what means
tempura flour (flour mixed with starch, etc.)
offender; criminal; culprit
settlement; solution; resolution
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other
first period (e.g. first class in school day)
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
ideal land; earthly paradise; Utopia; Arcadia
Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933)
to refer to; to use as reference
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
hello; good day; good afternoon
lateness; tardiness; arriving late
to hurry; to rush; to hasten; to make something happen sooner
a tiny bit; just a smidgin; a wee bit; very slightly
(something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened; never happens; there is never a time when
meeting up; gathering; assembly; set
for your information; I'm telling you
tonkatsu; breaded pork cutlet
bowl of eel and rice (donburi)
eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)
unprecedented; never happened before; first time in history
favourite dish (favorite); favourite food
(one's) favourite food; (one's) favorite food