dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
fusuma; Japanese sliding screen
coming down from one's seat and prostrating oneself (to pay obeisance); musicians' box on the left side of the stage; lower seat
zabuton (flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling; usu. rectangular)
order of seats; seating precedence; class standing
shishamo smelt (Spirinchus lanceolatus)
cold dish (e.g. at a restaurant)
good; goodness; right; virtue
(one's) older sister; (one's) elder sister; girl
manners; behavior; behaviour
service business (hotel, restaurant, entertainment); service industry
shyness; fear of strangers; stranger anxiety
middle of summer; height of summer; midsummer
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)
second year of junior high school; second-year junior high school student
(physical) growth; development
successively; one after another
trade; business; commerce; occupation; calling; profession
sound of bubbles (or other small objects) being popped; lumpy sensation (e.g. of food); little bits; small grains
to make a gesture or say something during a break in conversation, playing of songs, etc.; to interrupt
to warm up to; to get interested in; to get excited by
manners; etiquette; propriety; manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making
another family; another house
discipline; training; teaching manners
full particulars; the whole story; from beginning to end
older sister; lass; young lady
cleaner; wiper; eraser; cleaning; wiping; polishing
food of the mountains (wild game, mountain vegetables, mushrooms, etc.); fruits of the land