cheerful; bright; clear; clean; honest
to feel right; to sit well with one; to be happy about; to suit to a T; to fit well together
to call each other; to call out to one another
dress; outfit; equipment; makeup; adornment; guise
New Year's pine decoration
rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil; (arch.) cordoning off; (arch.) cordoning-off sign
kagami mochi; New Year offering consisting of two mochi stacked on each other with a bitter orange on top, cut and eaten on January 11
battle for sales at year-end; year-end shopping season
innocent; chaste; naive; pure; unmixed; genuine
congratulations!; well done!; best wishes!; all the best!
to hardly recognise; to mistake for something or somebody else
feel uneasy; on tenterhooks; in suspense; on pins and needles
(ceremonial) arrow used to drive off evil
prayer (for something); supplication
New Year's gift (usu. money given to a child by relatives and visitors)
chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus
to relax one's efforts; to let up; to let one's guard down
setting a bad example to others
still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less
cutting in round slices; round slice; dividing into groups (e.g. by ability)
to dip out; to scoop up; to ladle out
pan lid; pot lid; kanji "kettle lid" radical (radical 8)
fine weather; fair weather
pleasantly warm; nice and warm; repeatedly (hitting someone); again and again; over and over
teriyaki (meat or fish marinated in sweet soy sauce and broiled)
to lament; to grieve; to regret; to deplore
to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails
to polish up; to shine up
to have one's eye caught on something; to have one's attention drawn to something
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
change; alteration; substitute; rate of exchange
buying; shopping; buyer; purchase
directly managed store (as opposed to a distributor)
(your) daughter; young woman
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
solid body; three-dimensional object; multi-storey car park
neat and clean; tidy; trim
to jaunt around; to play around; to visit one place after another without effect
lonely person; someone who easily succumbs to loneliness