water; (drinking) water; night entertainment business; nightlife worker; racy; titillating
glass (drinking vessel); tumbler; cups (suit)
one breath; time of one breath; pause; break; (doing in) one go; doing without stopping
stinging (pain); smarting; tingling
to break on the shore and retreat (of a wave)
pus; corruption; rot; evils
condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); concentration; condensation (of a vapour or gas)
item; article; dish; course; finest item
trying (a food) for oneself; eating (a new product, renowned dish, etc.)
to swell (out); to expand; to be inflated; to get cross; to get sulky; to pout
mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice
painting something vermillion; lacquering something vermillion; vermillion-lacquered object
bowl (wooden); counter for bowls of food or drink
to dish up; to arrange (food) on a plate
kamaboko; steamed seasoned fish paste, usu. in a semicylindrical shape on a strip of wood and sliced to go in soup, etc.
mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica); Japanese honewort; Japanese honeywort; three-leaved; trefoil
soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)
soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)
Obon; Bon Festival; Buddhist festival for honouring the spirits of one's ancestors, held in mid-August or in some regions, mid-July; tray
to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)
(one's) Sunday best; (one's) best clothes; glad rags
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
bright and beautiful; gorgeous; showy; prosperous; flourishing; thriving
to become brilliant; to become cheerful
January; first month of the lunar calendar
first shrine visit of the New Year
Amitabha's Pure Land; Sukhavati
legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; female genitalia (esp. the clitoris); kidney; small
two colours; two varieties; two types
to dye in different colors (colours)
kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
dressed up (in fine clothes)
thickly (of smoke, steam, etc.); stiflingly (hot air); suffocatingly; pungently
being good at cooking; good cook
to employ; to hire; to take on; to charter (a car, boat, etc.); to hire
skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis); oceanic bonito; victorfish