reception (desk); information desk; receptionist; receipt; acceptance
receptionist; reception woman
censor; overseer; inspector (Edo period)
watchdog; chaperone; watcher
paper; note; document; bill
(government) inspector-general (Edo period); upper superintendent officer
encouragement; cheering (someone) up; restoring (someone) to consciousness; bringing (someone) around; restorative; stimulant
deposit; earnest payment; earnest money
chaperoning; monitoring someone's behaviour; watchdog; chaperone; watcher
netsuke; carved toggle used to tether a small container to the sash of a robe
choreography; dance composition; dance coaching
reception hours; opening hours
to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip
attaching a sleeve to the body of a shirt; sleeve seam
currently accepting (applications, etc.)
door-to-door entertainment; door-to-door entertainer; strolling musician; street musician
dyeing; printing; blue and white ceramics (china, porcelain)
approach (to a castle gate); front of a structural member
thin strip of wood smeared with sulfur, used to light a fire
installation; mounting; furnishing; run (on a bank); bank run
reservation; order acceptance
buying (in large quantities); (wholesale) purchase; buying in; (one's) usual (store, supplier, etc.); regular; favourite (brand, shop, etc.)
root; joint; base; crotch
assistant inspector (Edo period); junior metsuke
affectation; pretension; thin veneer; blunt sword with a tempered steel edge
restorative; stimulant; pick-me-up; alcohol; sake
assistant (esp. in show business or sumo); attendant; chaperon
ceramics painting; porcelain painting; painting on china
installation; setting; fitting; mounting
allotment; assignment; allocation; distribution; layout; editing
to add (one thing to another); to add (a few more words, an explanation, etc.)
to follow; to shadow; to hanker after; to hover around
vegetables or fish boiled in soy sauce
planting; planting out; transplanting
way of training; method of bringing up children
tacking (in needlework); basting; planting (esp. rice seedlings); discipline; training
method of patterning traditional Japanese clothing (the tops of all of patterns being pointed at the highest part of the shoulder)
tender offer; take-over bid; TOB
bill; account; very successful amateur wrestler, allowed to start professional career in makushita division
gift; present; tip; bribe
way of affixing something; way of recording something (to a logbook, etc.)
bookkeeping; keeping accounts; bookkeeper; accountant
pomade; pomatum; hair oil
selling; foisting; pushing
mounting bracket; metal part for mounting; metal fitting
to add (to); to add on; to append
to take advantage (of someone's weaknesses, carelessness, etc.); to impose on
to prowl after; to keep watch on
focus of one's attention; what one is looking for
dish broiled in a mix of soy sauce, mirin, etc.; broiling with soy sauce, mirin, etc.
false hair; hairpiece; hair filler
double printing; superimposition; superimposing
debit balance; outstanding credit; outstanding loan
pressure; clamping; tightening; fastening
to take advantage of someone's kindness or patience; to get carried away; to be elated; to get puffed up (with pride); to push one's luck; to get cocky
garnish (e.g. vegetables with a meat dish); trimmings; fixings; relish
to replace; to change (for a new one); to renew; to reassign (an expense); to charge (to a different account); to shift (a loss)
something done out of spite; snide remark; insinuation; innuendo; dig
addition; appendix; supplement; postscript
hairpiece; hair filler; artificial hair; wig
to allot; to distribute; to lay out; to divide among; to assign
to garnish; to serve (a dish) with; to join together; to put together; to compare; to check (against)
soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin (usu. topping on ramen)
bill collector for the night's entertainment; followers
overglaze painting (of ceramics); overglaze enamelling; overglaze
counter in a sushi restaurant
very successful amateur wrestler, allowed to start professional career in makushita division
downstage right pillar (on a noh stage) used as a positioning guidepost for actors
educational costs (e.g. when raising children)
tender offer; take-over bid; TOB
reservationist; person whose job is to take reservations
full justification with even inter-character spacing
tsukeage (term for fried fishcake in Kagoshima); satsuma-age
woodland bittercress (Cardamine flexuosa); wavy bittercress
match (for lighting fires)