nutritional value; food value
meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat
island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
Kagoshima (city, prefecture)
whitebait; elver (young eel)
plateau; tableland; eminence
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
third month of the lunar calendar; (arch.) thick growth (of grass, etc.); Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE); Yayoi culture
middle period; medium-term
rice cultivation; rice crop
manure; fertilizer; fertiliser; compost
(water-filled) paddy field
strongly; violently; quickly; suddenly
to stick into (of something with a sharp point); to prick; to pierce; to resonate emotionally; to move
securing; obtaining; ensuring; belay; belaying
force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort
to be able to manage somehow or another
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
solution; solution strategy
idea; conception; way of thinking; approach; expression
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
for example; for instance; e.g.
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
to become; to appear like; to have a touch of; to look like
as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate
gradually becoming poor; situation getting gradually worse and worse
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
to wither (of a plant); to be blasted; to die; to mature (of one's personality, abilities, etc.)
not funny; not a laughing matter; not a joke
consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (somebody) for advice
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
bright; intelligent; clever; smart