stern; grim; rough; rugged; forbidding; overbearing
shakudo; gold-copper alloy, often with a blue patina
simmer; bubble out; flow out
rice bowl; tea cup; teacup
five; five years of age; eight o'clock (old time system)
warming up sake; warmed sake
(sound of) wind blowing through pine trees; (sound of) steam whistling in a kettle (at a tea ceremony); matsukaze; sugar-glazed cookie sprinkled with sesame or poppy seeds
setting a place; setting the table
futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
eel donburi; bowl of rice topped with eel
porcelain bowl; donburi; bowl of meat, fish, etc. served over rice; front pocket in a haragake
top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes; ruler and ruled
interval; break; pause; gap (between objects); interval; opening
to boil strongly; to be excited
base; basis; base (e.g. military); depot; base; base bag
gambling mat (for dice games); altar mat for laying out offerings during the Bon festival
to work (for, at, in); to be employed (at); to finish (a term); to serve (e.g. a sentence); to conduct (a ceremony); to perform (a Buddhist memorial service)
foreign news; foreign telegram
fat; fatty; grand; magnificent; excellent
directions; instructions; orders; command
trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)
north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku
senior high school; high school
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
to get a lucky dice roll; to get what one hoped for; to have fortune smile upon one
certainty; reality; regular; permanent; samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation)
great success; big hit; (hitting the) jackpot; big win; being right on the mark (of a prediction); being bang on
to make oneself pleasant to everybody; to smile at everybody; to try to please everybody; to make things pleasant
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
shrill voice; piercing cry; shriek; scream
among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)