leaving; going home; quitting one's job; free time; leisure
stomach; breadbasket; inner man; dietary needs
awesome; awe-inspiring; august; discourteous (to a superior); lacking due respect
My goodness (expresses surprise, wonder, etc.); very; extremely
water; (drinking) water; night entertainment business; nightlife worker; racy; titillating
glass (drinking vessel); tumbler; cups (playing card suit)
one breath; time of one breath; pause; break; (doing in) one go; doing without stopping
stinging (pain); smarting; tingling
to break on the shore and retreat (of a wave)
pus; corruption; rot; evils
condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); condensation (of a vapour or gas)
item; article; dish; course; finest item
tasting a food that one has previously heard of
to swell (out); to expand; to be inflated; to get cross; to get sulky; to pout
mochi; (sticky) rice cake
painting something vermillion; lacquering something vermillion; vermillion-lacquered object
bowl (wooden); counter for bowls of food or drink
to dish up; to arrange food (on a plate)
kamaboko; steamed seasoned fish paste, usu. in a semicylindrical shape on a strip of wood and sliced to go in soup, etc.
mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica); Japanese honewort; Japanese honeywort; three-leaved; trefoil
soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)
soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)
O-Bon; Obon; Bon Festival; tray
to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)
(one's) Sunday best; (one's) best clothes; glad rags
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay
to become brilliant; to become cheerful
January; first month of the lunar calendar
first shrine visit of New Year
Amitabha's Pure Land; Sukhavati
legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; female genitalia (esp. the clitoris); kidney; small
two colours; two varieties; two types
to dye in different colors (colours)
kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
dressed up (in fine clothes)