sweet paste of white beans and miso
cattail cotton; cattail fluff; bulrush down
fatsi (Fatsia japonica); paperplant; Japanese aralia
changing one's (public) persona; changing one's (public) image
keep (it) steady (after a turn); understood; alright
carp streamer; carp banner
coarse anko; coarse sweet red bean paste
rice cakes wrapped in oak leaves
strained bean paste; smooth anko; fine-grained sweet bean paste
reserving; storing; setting aside; laying away
clapping one's hands in prayer (at a shrine)
elementary, junior high and high school
(deposit) passbook; bankbook
rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a preserved cherry leaf
roar; sound made by monsters
Full speed ahead!; Full steam ahead!
favorite; favourite; habitually used
hooray!; cheers!; bravo!; loud (e.g. applause); enthusiastic; tumultuous
to swipe; to filch; to pilfer; to snatch; to walk off with
I; me; myself; (arch.) we; (arch.) us; (arch.) ourselves
crash; kurash (wrestling)
secret technique; secret art
springy (texture); doughy; elastic
five colors (usu. red, blue, yellow, white and black); five colours; many kinds; varied; melon; gourd
crossbow (incl. large models operated by a number of people); netted apparatus atop a wall containing large stones, which were dropped onto attackers by cutting the net; slingshot; catapult
strength; power; proficiency; the strength of ... people; the strength of ... men
red bean paste; red bean jam; filling (e.g. of a manjū); stuffing; padding
big catch (fishing); good haul
chink in the armor (armour)
oak; daimyo oak; Japanese emperor oak; Quercus dentata
look who's talking; you're one to talk; you can talk