long-awaited; long-waited-for; someone who has waited a long time; something that one has waited impatiently for
ordinary citizen; the general public
query; interrogation; enquiry; question; inquiry
setting a place; setting the table
fish sauce (made from fermented salted fish)
consideration; concern; attention; thoughtfulness; making arrangements; care
whispering; subdued; murmuring; dry and tasteless
smelling of fish; fishy; degenerate (of a monk); depraved; worldly; mundane
cooked rice; something one never grows tired of
valuable article; valuables
nonglutinous grain (not sticky enough to make mochi rice cakes)
nutritional value; food value
to taste; to taste of; to have a taste
indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive
grain; bead; drop; counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops
delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient
crisp (not moist or juicy); crunchy; crunching sound (of walking on snow, frost, sand, etc.); doing skillfully and efficiently; doing quickly; (arch.) sound of pouring liquid
sweetness; sugary taste; sweets; dessert; cake
menu; bill of fare; program; programme; schedule
surmise (about somebody's feelings); guess; conjecture
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
millet; grain; (arch.) stipend in rice; 10,000th of a shaku
large-scale (mechanized, mechanised) farming; wealthy farmer
official duties; office; function
vast; extensive; immense; huge; large; grand
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)