spirits (distilled beverage)
(heavy) drinker; drunkard; tippler; boozer
to assemble everything together; to do something as a group
indigenous person; inhabitant of a country; local; native; local lords and samurai; daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
to groan; to moan; to roar; to howl; to hum (engine, wind, etc.); to buzz; to ooh and aah (in admiration)
thoughtful; deep-thinking
beginning of the year; the oldest person
Saint; St.; S.; sacred; holy; pure
national holiday; public holiday
countryman; provincial; person from the country; provincial person; bumpkin; hick
what; what kind of; no ...; any; adds emphasis to the preceding word; no
fermentation starter; yeast starter; seed malt
koji mold (Aspergillus oryzae)
amount of sugar; sugar content
disassembly; dismantling; factorization; decomposition; resolution; deblocking
washed rice; rinsed rice; washing rice; offering of consecrated washed rice
second; secondary; quadratic (function, equation, etc.); second-order
foreign matter; impurities
vaporization; vaporisation; evaporation
refrigerator; cooler; freezer; radiator (of a car)
reasoning; logic; persuasion
dawn; daybreak; event (e.g. "in the event of ..."); occasion; occurrence
each time; every time; whenever (something happens); on the occasion of
another village; other villages
disaster; accident; shipwreck; distress
gradations (on a ruler, thermometer, etc.); division; scale
what; how; what (a) ...!; how ...!; surprisingly; to my amazement
supplementary explanation