red rice (beans and mochi) for auspicious occasions
porcelain (esp. soft-paste porcelain); china; chinaware; earthenware; pottery; ceramics
clay-like; clayey; argillaceous
the same as it was long ago; unchanged; traditional
umeboshi; pickled dried ume; pickled dried plum
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
ochazuke; rice with tea poured on it
mercy; compassion; clemency; Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
wakame (species of edible brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida)
tofu; bean curd; beancurd
shiruko; sweet red-bean soup with mochi
anpan; bread roll filled with red bean paste
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
variety show (e.g. on TV)
to use tact; to exercise discretion; to be tactful; to be thoughtful; to have the sense (to do); to take a hint
process; operation; stage of a process; progress of work
to be disheartened; to lose heart; to be sprained; to be snapped; to be broken
to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe
process; course; mechanism
lye; harsh taste; bitter taste; scum (on a soup, broth etc.); (excessive) self-assertiveness; strong individuality
taking; taker; last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day; active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration); emphatic or formal prefix
water content; moisture; water vapor (vapour); steam; dropsy; edema
mochi; (sticky) rice cake
quiet; calm; easily; comfortably; distant; far-off
to grow thickly; to be in full leaf; to be rampant; to luxuriate; to be luxurious
to rain incessantly; to downpour
cutting in round slices; round slice; dividing into groups (e.g. by ability)
to make a mistake; to mess up; to make an error; to err
woodworking; woodworker; carpenter
to turn over; to turn upside down; to knock over; to tip over; to overturn (e.g. a decision); to upset
Anna era (968.8.13-970.3.25); Anwa era