refined sugar; sugar refining
toilet; lavatory; quiet place
if anything; conversely; putting it the other way around; coming at it from the opposite angle
sucrose; saccharose; cane sugar
to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
raw sugar; unrefined sugar
crystal; crystallization; crystallisation; fruits (of labor, union, etc.)
centrifugal separation method; centrifuge process; centrifugation method
centrifugal sugar; sugar freed from liquid by a centrifuge
molasses; black treacle; (sugar) syrup
non-centrifugal sugar; sugar extracted by evaporation
Okinawa (city, prefecture)
to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan
dark sweet liquid produced after the third heating in a thermal sugar-refining process; brown sugar
wagashi; traditional Japanese confectionery
wasanbon; fine-grained Japanese sugar (traditionally used in wagashi); wagashi sweets made from wasanbon
truth; reality; proper; right; genuine; authentic
cotton (material); red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)
making; forming; cultivating; form; appearance
to mash; to grind; to pulverize; to dissipate (a fortune); to run through; to lose
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
solid (body); solid matter; solid food
okara; soy pulp; tofu dregs; edible pulp separated from soybean milk in the production of tofu
coagulant; coagulating agent
bittern; concentrated solution of salts (esp. magnesium chloride) left over after the crystallization of seawater or brine
to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify
wooden form; wooden model; wooden pattern
beforehand; in advance; ahead of time; previously
cloth; fabric; material; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out; to lay down (e.g. a cushion); to impose widely (e.g. martial law); to promulgate; to pin down; to hold down
stone weight (as used on pickle-tub covers); weight (as used in balances)
bleaching; soaking; bleached cotton (esp. wrapped around the torso); doxxing; doxing; public humiliation (Edo-period punishment)
concentration; density; cardinality
direct; immediate; personal; firsthand
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
smooth; meticulous; painstaking; detailed
named after; associated with; connected with
far from; anything but; not at all ... but rather ...; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
filtering through silk cloth; straining through silk cloth
blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature