pleasure trip; company (office) trip
reluctant to; not inclined to; disinclined; unwilling
onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori)
Buddhist family chapel; altar room
ending; quitting; closing; ending before one had time to do something one wanted or intended to
bento; Japanese box lunch
making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi
calendar; calender (machine for flattening things)
to get a haircut; to give a haircut; to cut hair
pleasant; agreeable; comfortable; refreshing
person living with a family; lodger; housemate; flatmate; roommate
thick; dense; rich (as in taste or content); crowded
thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love
to be prominent; to be conspicuous
decoration; ornament; trimmings
dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)
regular holiday; fixed day off; regular closing day
just the other day; quite recently
gas station; petrol station
to imitate; to follow; to emulate
to clear up; to become cloudless; to be refreshed
proposal; proposition; suggestion
taking a breather; relaxation; vent hole
to do for (the sake of someone else)
back; reverse; rear side; height; stature; ridge (of a mountain)
in a train (car, bus, etc.); on a train
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
mild; calm; gentle; quiet; congenial; amicable
hold; catch; connection; relationship; unease; discomfort
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
one's heart; one's feelings; one's inner thoughts; one's mind
pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand
nothing but; none other than