lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
pre-made (esp. food); prepared in advance
porcelain (esp. soft-paste porcelain); china; chinaware; earthenware; pottery; ceramics
to be mad about; to be hooked on
before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later
separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
to cover (smear, sprinkle) (with)
water; liquid; fluid; moisture; humidity; sap
to hang; to droop; to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status); to confer; to drip; to ooze; to leave behind (at death)
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
only recently; just of late
to become possible; to become able to (do)
thrifty person; frugal person; economizer
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
thrift; economy; frugality
all you want; as much as one wants
knowingly or unknowingly; with or without someone's knowledge
to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on
to shine; to look slightly upward (of a noh mask; indicating joy, etc.)
each house; every house; many houses
all over; everywhere; in every nook and cranny
to knit; to plait; to braid; to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit
waste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away
prickling; stinging; tingling
(good or bad) feel when wearing something
four (long cylindrical things)
to grow; to spring up; to sprout; to cut (teeth)
to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to fail to ...; to miss one's opportunity to ...
wild grasses; field grass; wildflowers
to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach