nail; spike; tack; rivet; brad; (pachinko) pin
aptitude; aptness; suitability
decluttering; clearing out past accumulation; minimalism
to get up (e.g. from bed); to make one's way in the world; to achieve in life
to assort; to classify; to journalize (in accounting); to journalise
I don't know; I don't understand
gym clothes; gym uniform; PE kit
to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
sprouting; budding; young shoot; moe; fascination; infatuation (esp. towards anime and manga characters)
laws (of nature); (divine) providence
classification; sorting (out); grouping; assortment journalizing (in bookkeeping)
swiftly; rapidly; suddenly; abruptly; sharply (of a slope, bend, etc.); steeply
working adult; full-fledged member of society
landlord; landlady; house owner; home owner; head of the household
to meet up (as arranged); to rendezvous; to get together; to join (of roads, rivers, etc.); to flow together
mature age; advanced age; maturity; age when one is old enough to know better
depending on; dependent on
dropping (of tears, dew, etc.); falling off; dropping off; inadvertently (coming to the surface); letting out (e.g. a secret)
thinking back now; looking back
destined; predestined; fated; fateful
soba noodles eaten at night on New Year's Eve
duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck
scallion; green onion; spring onion
noodles with duck meat and Welsh onions
to look toward; to have one's eyes drawn towards something
southern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south); South-East Asian countries (in the late-Muromachi and Edo periods); Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal and their South-East Asian colonies; late-Muromachi and Edo periods); foreign (of goods from South-East Asia and Western Europe); exotic (esp. in a Western European or South-East Asian style); chili pepper; nanban
coming to Japan; visit to Japan; arrival in Japan
katsuobushi; pieces of sliced dried bonito
dark sweet liquid produced after the third heating in a thermal sugar-refining process; brown sugar