rivalry (between two equally strong sides); struggle for supremacy; competing (with); vying (with); contending (with); being an equal match (for)
exception; supernumerary; extra (e.g. performance, item, object, etc.); additional; outsize
to feed (e.g. an animal on oats); to let eat; to support (e.g. a family); to provide for; to inflict (damage); to deal (e.g. a blow)
Dostoevskii; Dostoyevskii
tonkatsu; breaded pork cutlet
avid desire; craving; thirst; watering at the mouth; drooling
something or other; one thing or another; this or that
to begin to do; to cater; to deliver food
naughty; mischievous; unruly
fashion sense; sense of fashion
tatami room; dinner party in a tatami room with a geisha or maiko
to coil about; to follow about; to surround; to cling to
Ebisu; god of fishing and commerce
sense of language; feeling of a word; impression a word makes; nuance
ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream
Kaga (former province located in the south of present-day Ishikawa Prefecture)
fourth year (college) student; senior
hungrily; greedily; voraciously; ravenously
university student; college student
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
being the sole winner; winner-take-all
flurry of snow in a clear sky; winter wind which brings scattered snowflakes or raindrops; skin eruptions cause by a cold or fever
racing form; racing (news)paper
family structure; family composition; family makeup
to have luck turn one's way; to have one's fortune change for the better
points paid and received at the end of a game of mahjong based on position (rank)
women's college; women's university
easy to get into (e.g. of music, etc.); easily getting into (a certain mood, etc.)
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
Universiade; international multi-sport event for university athletes