method of bringing up; method of raising
hopping; skipping; lightly and repeatedly jumping
feel; touch; impression (of a person); most impressive passage; highlight; beginning
regret; flesh, blood vessels and fat from around chicken heart (usu. served as yakitori)
sworn younger brother; junior male peer (in a club, group, etc.)
protegee; someone who one considers as a younger sister
to pour water (into); to dilute with water; to hinder; to hamper; to throw cold water on
to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent
lightheadedness; disorientation; wobbliness; staggering
cleaning; clean-up; garbage collection; scavenging
all sorts of; all kinds of
to open one's heart; to throw off reserve; to be frank
to frolic about; to mess around
good luck; fortune; happiness; harvest; yield
ethics; ethical viewpoint; moral value; sense of duty; sense of ethics
to have more losses than wins
concentration; diligence; asceticism; zeal in one's quest for enlightenment; adherence to a vegetarian diet
strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa)
great fortune; good luck; rice cake stuffed with bean jam
no need to guess; certainly
useless member of society; hopeless case; failure
kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; kabuki play; kabuki performance; make-believe; ruse
delivery; transfer; hand-over
real nuisance; becoming inconvenienced by someone else's problems (through no fault of one's own)
to lure out of; to decoy out of; to drive to (tears, sleep, etc.); to evoke (sympathy, etc.); (arch.) to abduct; (arch.) to entice out of
cannot do without something; indispensable; absolutely necessary; have to do
a long way off; matter for the future; not going to happen anytime soon
easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic
filial piety; showing devotion (to someone)
child one is expecting; child in one's womb
to rub; to chafe; to strike (match); to lose (e.g. a match); to forfeit; to squander one's money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)