stairs; rank; grade; guide; guidebook; slanted ladder (exercise equipment)
tediously; lengthily; wordily
to die; (lit.) to become a star
Nichiren chant; (an empty) slogan
sweet words; smooth talk; cajolery; flattery; sycophancy
cancellation; withdrawal; asking to be excused; begging off; not taking
pent-up resentment; grudges and hard feelings
truth; reality; seriousness; logical truth; printed style writing; star performer
zero; naught; oh; flying; leaping
both people; two people; two directions; both directions
to be duplicated; to be repeated; to overlap; to fall together (of dates, etc.); to repeat (a failed course, school year, etc.); to make a double play
this (very thing); this precisely
eternity; infinitude; immortality
to be dazzled by; to be dizzied by; to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.); (arch.) to become dark
weak matcha; light brown (color, colour)
coating (esp. lacquering)
dashi (Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp)
to be fragrant; to give out a smell; to be enveloped in a smell; to be radiant; to be attractive
mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica); Japanese honewort; Japanese honeywort; three-leaved; trefoil
basket clam (Corbiculidae spp.); freshwater clam; freshwater mussel
shell (e.g. electron shell)
uninhabited island; desert island
microscopic; infinitesimal
small dining table (usu. for a single person); serving tray (with legs); meal; food; counter for bowlfuls of rice; counter for pairs of chopsticks
by some chance; somehow; in some way; somehow or other; one way or another; by any means possible
broth; soup (esp. miso soup)
baked seaweed; toasted seaweed
cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
Kyoto-style chopped vegetables pickled in salt with red shiso leaves
preserved food boiled in soy
multicolored; multicoloured; of various colors; diverse; of all kinds; all manners of
to narrow the focus; to focus attention (on); to concentrate (on); to zero in
unlined kimono; one kimono; a single kimono
sensitive; fragile; feeble; indecisive