vegetables or fish boiled in soy sauce
amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic); full; one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat; fully; to capacity
remnant; residue; remaining; left-over
sauce; Worcestershire sauce
to sprinkle salt on; to salt
severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous
full up; to have had enough of something (both good and bad nuance)
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
prohibition; inhibition; ban
to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
manual laborer; manual labourer
simply put; putting it simply
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
taste; liking; preference
common people; ordinary people; masses
cut end; section; opening; point of view; (different) perspective; new approach
older sister; elder sister
head house (family); birthplace; originator
to taste; to eat; to drink; to speak (of); to refer (to); to say
to be thoroughly attracted by; to be completely fascinated by
old; former; the old; old things; old times; bygone days
middle of the night; dead of night
figure; body shape; build; somatotype; biotype; habitus
pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
young man; young woman; young people; youth; youngsters
art; technique; means; way; trick; trap
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
connivance; tacit consent; toleration; acquiescence
after a long time; for the first time in a while
this (very thing); this precisely
to talk; to chat; to chatter
each time; every time; whenever (something happens); on the occasion of
being afraid of; being fearful; being timid; trembling; shivering
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
system where all students live in dormitories; residential system; boarding system (e.g. boarding school)