menu; bill of fare; program; programme; schedule
dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
after a long time; for the first time in a while
this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
family; members of a family
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
manners; etiquette; propriety; manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making
hearty; tremendous; magnificent; glorious; splendid; heroic
to covet; to crave; to lust insatiably for; to indulge in; to devour greedily
to slurp; to sip (loudly); to sniffle; to sniff
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship
pleasant; agreeable; comfortable
somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why
journey; trip; travels; during the journey; on the way; while travelling
showy; loud; gay; flashy; gaudy
to act violently; to rage; to struggle; to be riotous
occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom
highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
to escape from; to get out
bowl (wooden); counter for bowls of food or drink
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
victory or defeat; match; contest; game
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
criterion; standard; yardstick; rough estimate; approximation
samurai on horseback; (medieval) knight
jue (ancient 3-legged Chinese wine pitcher, usu. made of bronze); peerage (hereditary title bestowed by the emperor)
baron; Irish cobbler (variety of potato)
on the occasion of; at the time of
wild; growing wild; living in the wild; (arch.) I
restlessly; aimlessly; to loiter; to drift; to be restless; to fuss
town; city; municipal; urban
to attack; to assail; to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.); to make a sudden visit
if so; in that case; in that situation
revival (e.g. musical); come-back; restoration; rebirth; resurrection