large amount of money; great cost
miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key (main) point; good part (of something); weakling
generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual
cart-horse; work-horse; doing something wholeheartedly; doing with one's undivided attention
rucksack; knapsack; backpack
lightly; easily; carelessly
shopping; purchased goods
evening glow; red sunset; afterglow (of sunset)
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
pickling in salt; leaving unchanged; leaving unused
flesh; meat; flesh (of a fruit); pulp; the physical body (as opposed to the spirit); flesh; thickness
planned; scheduled; systematic
valuable article; valuables
anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly
to be burned out (of one's home)
to join together; to combine; to join up
to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop
irrigation channel; irrigation ditch; irrigation canal; flume
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
to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe
infant; baby; little child
washing; laundry; relaxing; taking a break
barefoot; superior to (a professional, etc. in ability or achievement)
field (for fruits, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; field (of specialization); sphere; womb; birth
to till; to plow; to plough; to cultivate
rosary; string of prayer beads
to chant (repeat) the name of Buddha
trailer towed by bicycle, etc.
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
to count up; to enumerate
endless; boundless; innumerable; endless; never-ending; going on forever
electricity; (electric) light
gas (state of matter, e.g. poison gas, natural gas); gasoline; gas; dense fog; thick fog; gas stove
water supply; water service; channel; strait; water course; waterway
to put one's heart and soul (into); to completely devote oneself (to)
enrich the country, strengthen the army (Meiji era government slogan)
foreign; abroad; overseas
major powers of the world; great powers
domestic; domestically-produced; produced within a country