one shō bottle (1.8 litres)
salmon (Salmonidae spp.); chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
measuring container; measure; box (seating at a theatre, etc.); square on a grid; cell of a grid; square bearing block (at the top of a pillar)
draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; something full of holes; zaru soba; strong drinker; someone who can drink like a fish
contest; comparison; competition
drinking straight from a bottle
snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly; (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
Nebuta; nighttime festival in Tōhoku (esp. Aomori)
Nebuta Festival (in Aomori, August 2-7)
contour; outline; summary; outline; looks; features
charging (electrically); electrification
disconnection; interruption; burn-out
womanizer; Lothario; Don Juan; philanderer; lady-killer
generosity; magnanimity; tolerance; length and capacity; measures
ecstatic; ecstatically; splitting headache
calm; quiet; gentle; moderate; reasonable; amicable
carelessly; thoughtlessly; inadvertently
blind acceptance; blind belief; credulity
meow; miaow; cat; sexual intercourse; making out
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
lowering; sinking; depreciation; price fall; punch line (of a rakugo story); (arch.) sword strap
orphan; person without friends
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
loincloth; waistcloth; kimono underskirt
offender; criminal; culprit
searching for the culprit; trying to find out who did something
nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web
ingredient; (raw) material; unprocessed timber; raw timber; subject matter; topic
death during sexual intercourse
heigh-ho; heave-ho; hold on!; just a minute; la-la