to undo; to untie; to unfasten; to unlace; to unravel; to loosen
athletic meet (esp. at school); sports day
huh?; eh?; what?; oh; hey!; look!
cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration
cooking (esp. Japanese style); cuisine; (Japanese) restaurant
nimono; food cooked by boiling or stewing
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
housework; domestic chores; family affairs; household matters
skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
stealthily; secretly; in secret
to insure (something); to come up with a back-up plan; to hedge one's bets; to play it safe
order (for an item); request; demand; condition
udon served in a pot with broth
cooking stove; burner (gas, electric, etc.); range; cooktop; hob
condition of fire; heat level; fire strength
regulation; adjustment; control
process; course; mechanism
apart from that; to return to the topic; enough of that
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
wrapping cloth; cloth wrapper
middle; midway; middle position; moderate position; interim; intermediary
cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
colouring; coloring; shade (of colour); flavour; nuance; feel
to lean (to one side); to incline; to be unbalanced (e.g. diet); to be unduly weighted towards; to be partial; to be biased
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
to close one's eyes partly; to squint; to smile with one's whole face; to look fondly at
contrary to expectations; or so we thought, but ...
suddenly; abruptly; deliberately; slowly; gently
roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)
toothpick; skewer for eating moist wagashi (steel, bamboo, etc.)
gaping (e.g. mouth, wound); (opening) wide; snapping up (e.g. bait); biting into (food); plagiarism; rip-off
denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like
to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)
brisk and efficient; diligent; devoted; spirited