to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
to make time; to carve out some time (to do something)
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
forced laugh; forced smile
to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt
preparing (food) in advance; making in advance; pre-made; prepared in advance
maker; builder; creator; farmer
to create a debt in one's favor (e.g. by doing someone a favor); to create an obligation in one's favor
to farm; to cultivate a field
to make (with great attention to detail); to produce; to craft; to build (something) into
manufacturing; craftsmanship; making New-Year's decorations; (arch.) preparing fields; (arch.) farming
to put on coquettish airs; to act flirtatiously; to act kittenish
manufacturing; craftsmanship; build
networking; making contacts
feigned voice; unnatural voice
fabrication; lie; fiction
built-in; fixed; attached
rice cultivation; rice farming
to fix (e.g. to a wall); to secure; to install; to plant
to adorn; to decorate; to dress up; to build up
small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar; tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field
floriculture; flower gardening; floriculturist
style of building; construction; recipe; how to grow (something)
so near, yet so far; ploughing the field and forgetting the seed; (lit.) making a Buddha statue but not putting a soul in it
to crow at the break of dawn (of a rooster, etc.); to mark the dawn; to proclaim the dawn
to put up an (emotional) wall (between two people); to become distant; to form a wall (of people)
personnel training; human resources development; character building
to set a bad example; to create a bad precedent
affected look; made-up face
sake brewer; sake brewery
tsukuri-e; painting technique with initial lines painted over by opaque color and redrawn later
palace workshop responsible for making furnishings, etc. (Heian period)
alias; pseudonym; pen name; nom de plume
made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation; arranging a group of things or people to form a character; (arch.) kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China); (arch.) Japanese-made kanji
leather; tanned animal hide; kanji "leather" radical (radical 177)
I feign no hypotheses; hypotheses non fingo
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
to be ready to cry; to be on the point of tears
common mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)
to window-dress; to put on airs; to be pretentious; to pretend