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Champagne

1

affected; smug; pompous; conceited; snobby; pretentious

1

simple; plain; modest; frugal; reserved

4

I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ...

1

plate; dish; serving; helping; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)

2

pie; tart

1

tip of nose; before one's eyes; under one's nose; tip (of something)

1

to extend from one year to the next; to go to the next year

1

vivid; clear; distinct

1

soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)

2

to enter a New Year

2

washing; sashimi chilled in iced water

2

juice; sap; soup; broth

2

soy sauce; shoyu

1

base; basis; base (e.g. military); depot; base; base bag

4

kombu (usu. Saccharina japonica); konbu; kelp; any edible species from the family Laminariaceae

4

thin soy sauce; light soy sauce

2

to flavor; to flavour; to season

1

mochi; (sticky) rice cake

4

spinach

2

rice cakes; pounded mochi rice

1

rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day)

1

blueness; greenness; tinge of blue; (vegetable) garnish

1

yuzu (Citrus ichangensis x C. reticulata)

1

food packed in nest of lacquered boxes

1

Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures; Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)

3

rolled Japanese-style omelette

3

roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)

1

to vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner

1

to put someone to work; to make someone work

1

first shrine visit of New Year

11

visitor (to a shrine or temple)

1

torii; Shinto shrine archway

1

hunting

1

fishing industry; fishery

1

protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)

1

to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship

1

Kawasaki (city)

1

direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter

2

squalid; messy

2

worshipper; worshiper; visitor (to a shrine or temple); pilgrim

2

request

10

to grasp back; to squeeze back; to grab back

1

offertory box

2

fate; chance; relationship; tie

1

bell (often a large hanging bell); chime

9

to put one's palms together (e.g. when praying or asking for something); to place one's hands together; to compete against somebody; to play (a game, match, etc.) against somebody

1

one eye; one of one's eyes

1

quarrel; dispute

1

visit (to a shrine, grave, etc.); worship

3