serving customers; looking after visitors; reception
administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
environment; circumstance
as (for); for; in the capacity of
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
earnings from a part-time job
hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote
interference; intervention; meddling
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
shelf; ledge; rack; trellis
porcelain; china; chinaware; ceramics; pottery
to play an instrument (esp. string instruments); to dance
with a clang or a clink; tinkle
number one; first; best; most; game; round
that day; the very same day
to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate
mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)
whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt
to hold all the while; to talk about nothing but
my; one's own; personal; privately owned
maximum permissible level or dosage
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
convenient; handy; useful
article; goods; fine thing; fellow; (arch.) prostitute; (arch.) price
what with this and that; for a number of reasons
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)
messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
manure; night soil; dung; something that will help one develop in the future
five; five years of age; eight o'clock (old time system)
to project; to show; to portray; to depict; to describe
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
plan; meter; measuring device; (in) total; total (of)
ten; 10; ten years of age
counter for articles; counter for military units; individual
oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!
work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty
sleepy; drowsy; somnolent
furthermore; besides; moreover; in addition; further; above or beyond this