spiced sake (served at New Year's)
great achievement; great feat; great work; great undertaking
custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice
celebration; auspicious occasion
favorite; favourite; pet (e.g. teacher's pet); bookmark (in a web browser)
to read aloud; to read to someone
(not) even once; (not) ever
grandfather; male senior-citizen; old man
deserted (esp. store, market, town, streets); quiet; inactive (business, trade, etc.); slack; idle; free
at the window; by the window; next to the window
to exercise one's talent; to display one's ability
reaffirmation; reconfirmation; revalidation
firmly; solidly; sturdily; strongly; toughly
face; looks; countenance; vestige; trace; reminder
woman; girl; Chinese "Girl" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); feminine noun
strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa); 15,000 yen
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while traveling (travelling); present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
to be at a complete loss; to be without recourse; to be completely stymied; to have absolutely no idea what to do
Okinawan dragon boat race
elevation; height above sea level
on the road; on the street; in the street; on the way
brunt of attack or argument
shape of a pillar or column
joint; reason; sense; logic
wildcat (European wildcat, Iriomote cat, Tsushima cat, etc.); wild cat; stray cat
surpassing everything; better than anything; to be better than anything
Hawk-Eye (computer referee system)
each place; various places
muscle stiffness (esp. in shoulders)
pride (in one's achievements, possessions, etc.); self-praise; boast
bamboo fence (oft. a diagonally linked one); undebranched bamboo used as a drying frame
exquisite; superb; perfect; miraculous
thinking nothing of ...; undaunted by ...; in defiance of ...; in spite of ...; in the face of ...; ignoring ...
claws and fangs; claws and tusks; clutches; devious design; pawn; stooge