adventure; venture; venture which is unlikely to succeed; risky attempt; danger
feeling; sense; impression
gamebook; choose your own adventure book
Western-influenced; Occidental-looking; exotic; (lit.) smelling of butter
plentiful; abundant; ample; lavish
to incorporate; to include; to fill (a vessel) with
translation; deciphering; decoding; translation
thickly; heavily; richly; severely; strongly
to sell (well); to be well known; to be popular; to be famous
this one; with this; in this way
Jonathan; Jonathan's (family restaurant)
work (e.g. of art); piece; harvest; crop; technique
pursuit (of a fleeing enemy); chase; follow-up attack
party; group; crew; company (of troops); corps; unit
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; person with a strong backbone; person that does incredible things; person of considerable talent
young person; youth; young
practitioner of Buddhism; practitioner of austerities; disciplinant; practitioner of martial arts
dhyana (profound meditation); Zen (Buddhism)
number of pages; page space
to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end
see you later; goodbye; sincerely
karate; being empty-handed; having nothing in one's hands
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest
to encourage; to cheer on; to cheer (someone) up; to raise (one's voice)
a short time ago; a while ago; for some time
clear weather; cloudless weather; good weather
(sudden, heavy) shower (on a summer afternoon or evening); evening shower
speciality; specialty; special subject of study; sole interest; single focus; concentrating exclusively on
chase; pursuit; tracking; following up; tracing
because; the reason is; if you want to know why