(writing, painting) brush
good handwriting; skillful penmanship; speedy writing; vigorous writing
ending; conclusion; join; union; knot; knotting
crossing; passage; importing; import; wandering; wanderer; migration
ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
accomplishment; execution
information session; briefing; explanatory meeting
tenement house; row house
tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)
one person; another name; nickname; alias
middle and high school; medium and high (level)
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
countryside; country; 50-home township (comprised of 2-3 neighbourhoods)
village; hamlet; countryside; country
to follow; to shadow; to hanker after; to hover around
carefree; free from worry
rapidly (e.g. progress, moving forward); growing visibly; quickly; steadily; by leaps and bounds
in order; in turn; one by one
House of Representatives (lower house of the National Diet of Japan)
girls' or women's division or section
wearisome; insipid; dull; irksome; wretched; vain
to make tea (matcha); to perform the tea ceremony
hearth; fireplace; furnace; kiln
rude; impolite; mannerless; snotty
older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella
to pitch forward; to fall forward
terrible; awful; I don't even want to talk about it; without reason; inevitable; that's just how it is
therefore; consequently; accordingly; for that reason
no longer being fond of someone; spiteful words or acts showing that one is disgusted with someone
matcha; powdered green tea
tea whisk; bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea; hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)
to mix; to stir; to scramble; to churn
weak matcha; light brown (color, colour)
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into