interlude (in traditional Japanese music); chanting or clapping along (during a song or dance); interjection
to slurp; to sip (loudly); to sniffle; to sniff
New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January
battledore (early form of badminton racket)
hanetsuki (Japanese badminton); battledore and shuttlecock
serve; serving (e.g. of food)
feather; plume; wing; blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.); shuttlecock (in badminton); shuttlecock (in hanetsuki); arrow feathers
shooter; vaccinator; inoculator; drummer (taiko, etc.)
fool; twit; idiot; bird-brain
New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January
fee contingent upon success; contingency fee; completion bonus
mass; mass (media, production, etc.); masturbation
starting a business; promotion of enterprise
order; rank; position (e.g. in a race); precedence
maker; manufacturer; producer; producer (of a film, play, etc.)
simulated experience; simulation
selling like crazy; selling like hotcakes; flying off the shelves
big craze; boom; popular trend; widespread contagion; large outbreak
(company) director; executive; top management; important post; role with heavy responsibilities
to worry about; to be anxious about; to be concerned about; to lament; to grieve; to mourn
to grow in intensity; to be aggravated; to get worse; to develop
there's nothing we (I, he, she, etc.) don't have; nonexistent; not in one's possession; we (I, he, she, etc.) don't have what we don't have
Shinto priest; chief priest (of a Shinto shrine); Welsh onion
first shrine visit of the New Year
information desk personnel; guide; usher
style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")
kariginu; informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards; patterned kariginu (Edo period)
fashion sense; sense of fashion
just made; fresh (e.g. from the oven); newly built (e.g. house); brand-new
soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)
scattered; separated; dispersed
outside Earth's atmosphere; outer space; exoatmosphere; exo-atmosphere
outer fence; outer enclosure; outer block; outline; contour
excited; enthusiastic; high-tensile (e.g. steel); high-voltage (e.g. circuit); high-tension (e.g. current)
bad news; news of a death; death notice
nothing special; no big deal; doesn't matter
to affix; to append; to entrust; to refer; to follow (the leader); to submit (a document, etc.)
Milky Way; luminous band corresponding to the plane of the galaxy
being scattered and ultimately lost; dissipation
queen; queen; queen (chess piece); Queen (highest title for female players in competitive karuta)