high class; high grade; high rank; seniority
ryotei; traditional Japanese restaurant (esp. a luxurious one)
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
prohibition; inhibition; ban
to play a leading role; to play a central part
liquor store; wine shop; bottle shop; sake dealer; liquor-store owner; brewer
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
alley; alleyway; teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)
to decline (in prosperity); to become deserted; to become desolate; to taper off (of a sound)
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone
scale; scope; plan; structure
starting to work in a shop; joining a shop as an employee; going inside a shop; opening up a shop (in a building, etc.)
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
introduction; presentation; referral; listing
shall ...; to assume; to suppose
basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation
huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
clientele; customer stratum
to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort
gold (Au); golden (color); valuable; of highest value; money; gold coin; Friday
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
layer; stratum; class; stratum; sheaf; counter for stories (of a building)
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
now that; since; so long as; because
go that far; to that extent
beginning; outset; first; onset
state; condition; situation; appearance; circumstances
especially; particularly; surely; clearly; as if; as though
store; shop; establishment; restaurant
doing together (as equals); sharing; common (land, etc.); joint (statement, etc.); cooperation; co-operation
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
at once; immediately; right now
recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
young man; young woman; young people; young employee; young manservant; young follower
project; enterprise; business; (arch.) act; (arch.) deed; (arch.) conduct
to have a talk; to tell a story
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard