hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
to refer to; to use as reference
Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933)
ideal land; earthly paradise; Utopia; Arcadia
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
first period (e.g. first class in school day)
there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
settlement; solution; resolution
offender; criminal; culprit
tempura flour (flour mixed with starch, etc.)
how; in what way; by what means
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 come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; considerate; kind; genial
thin dipping sauce for tempura
finish; finishing; finishing touches
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
aromatic (roasted beans, roasted tea, etc.); fragrant (e.g. burning wood); pleasant-smelling; savory-smelling (e.g. barbecued meat); savoury; appetizing
salty; calculating; stingy; scowling; grimacing; hoarse
person inside a cartoon body suit; voice actor; insider
master (of a house, shop, etc.); husband; sir; boss; patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy
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
completely satisfied; as pleased as can be
one's house; one's home; one's family
maid; helper; help; assistance
nikujaga; meat and potato stew
seat; location (of a gathering, etc.); place; position; post
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward
family; members of a family
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); still; all the same; even ... (e.g. "even a genius")
shopping; purchased goods
anniversary of a person's death; monthly return of the date of someone's death
counter for wheels and flowers
chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium)
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
portrait of deceased person