highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
to finger; to touch; to make changes to; to tinker with; to dabble in; to do as a hobby
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
result (that makes an act worthwhile); worth (in doing something); value; Kai (former province located in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture)
accomplishment; execution
one-pot meal of green onions and tuna
(giving) birth; childbirth; native (of); product of; produced in; assets
chic; smart; understanding; considerate; familiar with worldly pleasures (esp. sexual relations, geisha districts and red-light districts)
way of eating; how to eat
head-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)
confrontation; opposition; antagonism
manners; customs; public morals; sex service; sex industry
intelligence gathering; information gathering
at first; in the beginning; originally
mischief; prank; mischievous; naughty; pastime; hobby
carbonated drink; fizzy drink; soda
cheese; tee (piping); T-joint; cheese (said when taking a photograph)
set (of things); combo; setting up; preparing; setting (hair); set (in tennis, volleyball, etc.); set (in a play, film, etc.)
annihilation (of particle and anti-particle)
creation; generation; formation; derivation
organic; organic chemistry; organic compound
fixed period; fixed term; regular; periodic; fixed-term commuter pass; fixed-term deposit
picking; collecting; harvesting; extraction
imbalance; disproportion; disparity; mismatch; asymmetry
(alcoholic) cider; hard cider
to do together; to put together; to lump together; to regard in the same light; to put in the same category; to arrange for (two people) to marry
nationality; citizenship; nationality (ship, airplane, etc.); registration; flag
alumnus (alumnae); graduate; former member of an organization; former inhabitant (country, region, etc.)
marine products; seafood; fish and shellfish
cooking; food preparation
gazing at (in wonderment)
method of cooking; way of cooking; cooking technique; recipe
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to reach the peak of something (e.g. luxury, hardships, etc); to be extremely (e.g. busy); to exhaust completely; to have nothing left (e.g. to say)