soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)
blue cloth; blue ground; blue background
continuing from beginning to end; continuous run; appetizer; starter; performance of an entire play
high spirits; gleeful mood
osechi; osechi-ryōri; traditional food eaten during the New Year's holidays
bowl (wooden); counter for bowls of food or drink
soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)
to copy; to imitate; to counterfeit; to forge
innocent; chaste; naive; pure; unmixed; genuine
(department) store; (department) stores
painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
originally; essentially; naturally; in the first place; to begin with
diligent; hardworking; healthy; fit; (arch.) faithful; (arch.) devoted
to miss (doing); to fail (to do)
removing a bad taste; cleansing one's palate; palate cleanser; intermezzo; dish or beverage to cleanse one's palate between dishes of a meal
(woman's) undersash; rolled omelette mixed with fish (paste) (omelet)
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
Swiss roll; jelly roll; roll cake
creative cookery; creative cuisine
mashed sweet potatoes with sweetened chestnuts
Mont Blanc (chestnut and cream dessert)
to choke; to be choked (by); to sob convulsively
mid-sized konoshiro gizzard shad (i.e. about 15 cm in size)
foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
fish that are called by different names as they grow larger
of good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)
traditional food; ancestral food
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii)
pickling in salt; leaving unchanged; leaving unused
second; secondary; quadratic (function, equation, etc.); second-order
regional cuisine; local cuisine
to be boiled down; to come to a standstill; to reach an impasse; to approach a conclusion (of a discussion, investigation, etc.)
empty seat; unoccupied seat; vacancy; vacant post
dining; dining room; meal
drawing room; parlour; parlor; reception office
visa; endorsing (e.g. a passport); stamping
issuance (e.g. of a passport); issuing
dilatorily; sluggishly; to take a lot of time; to become late; to take it easy