duty; sense of duty; honor; in-law; relation by marriage
to miss (doing); to fail (to do)
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward; gift
returning home; visiting one's parents; new bride's first visit to parents
an order of magnitude higher; off by a digit; in a different league; unbelievable; incomparable; unimaginable
opening performance; opening act; curtain raiser; minor performer; minor storyteller; subordinate part
will; probably; may; I think; surely; I hope
perhaps; likely; probably; I dare say
to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with; to be equivalent to
to pass (time); to spend; to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol); (arch.) to take care of; (arch.) to support
hazy; misty; foggy; hazy feeling; uncertain feeling; feeling gloomy
to put all one's skill (into doing something); to do something to the best of one's ability
sea bream (Sparidae); porgy; tai (species of reddish-brown Pacific sea bream, Pagrus major)
cheap article; poor quality article
feces (esp. animal); excrement; dung
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
bento; Japanese box lunch
making do; getting by (somehow); managing
cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless
hesitation; bewilderment; illusion; delusion; inability to reach enlightenment
to do physical exercise; to be physically active; (lit.) to move one's body
bad mannered; naughty; misbehaving
putting life into; animating; cheering up
comical (story, song); comic; the comedy business (rakugo, manzai, etc.); something laughable
to be rich in; to abound in; to be abundant in; to be rich; to be wealthy
department store; department
riding; ride; spread (of paints); -seater (e.g. two-seater); (getting into the) mood; (entering into the) spirit
round; circular; curved; smooth; harmonious; calm
soldier; combatant; warrior
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not
sweet (taste); luscious; sweet (melody, dream, etc.); delightful; pleasant
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
indeed; really; absolutely; truly; actually; very
to fall down; to fall over; to turn out; to play out; to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
(beating someone) hands down; with a single blow
way of murdering; killing method; way of using a sword
head-on fight; direct confrontation; head-to-head contest