cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration
crowded; packed; crammed; cramped; filled; overflowing
many; numerous; various; large number of
surplus; margin; leeway; composure; placidity; complacency
to fly about; to skip about; to bustle about
way of talking; speaking style
to break (into pieces); to be broken; to collapse; to crumble; to become less formal; to throw off reserve
polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
all; entire; whole; altogether
very hungry; starving; fawning; bowing and scraping; giving in; being dented
to fry; to saute; to stir-fry
bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread
luxury; extravagance; to live in luxury; to indulge oneself; lavish (use of something); abundant
remnant; residue; remaining; left-over
whenever you want; any time you like
stoppage; coming to a stop; ceasing (movement, activity, etc.); suspension (of operations); suspension (of payment, licence, etc.); (temporary) prohibition
function; facility; faculty; feature
luggage; baggage; burden; payload (of a packet, cell, etc.)
to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide
to put into the mouth; to eat
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
to turn one's hand to; to reach out one's hand; to get involved in; to make a move on; to strike; to beat
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
someone working behind-the-scenes; scene shifter; lady consort (to a high personage)
commerce; trade; business
maintenance; preservation; improvement
to go; to come; to turn out (at a meeting, event, etc.); to show up; to make your way to
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold