rice gruel containing vegetables, fish, etc., and seasoned with miso or soy sauce
surroundings; environs; circumference
friendly chat; pleasant chat; lighthearted talk; friendly conversation
refreshing (e.g. feeling, scene, wind, morning air); brisk; bracing; fresh; refreshed
miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key (main) point; good part (of something); weakling
to be boiled; to be cooked
sweet-smelling; fragrant; aromatic; good (reputation, condition, results, etc.); favorable
to go through; to pass through; to get through; to cut across
pensive (or worried) look on one's face
-less; lacking; non-existing
conventional and uninteresting; stereotypical and boring; commonplace; unsociable; unfriendly; cold
to trample; to crush underfoot
to stop walking; to pause
left hand; left-hand side; left-hand direction; (on) the left
first year of elementary school; first year elementary school student
special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi); secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu
censor; overseer; inspector (Edo period)
bulky; massive; thick; heavy
bearded face; unshaven face; hairy face
going into battle; departure for the front
life; living; I; me; student
to have a meal; to eat; to make a living; to earn one's bread
quarter; a fourth; square (piece of) cloth
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
continually; continuously; incessantly; without interruption
to blow a conch; to blow a trumpet shell; to blow the war horn
neighborhood; vicinity; environs; approaching
whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt
scolding; rebuke; reprimand; fierce encouragement; exhorting
appearance; air; mien; getup
handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler
blue cloth; blue ground; blue background
brocade; fine dress; fine clothes
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
eboshi; black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan
(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task