reconstruction; reorganization; reorganisation; reconstitution; reconfiguration
to demand money; to pester; to extort
common sense; general knowledge; common knowledge
soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)
blue cloth; blue ground; blue background
continuing from beginning to end; continuous run; appetizer; starter; performance of an entire play
high spirits; gleeful mood
Japanese cooking; Japanese cuisine
osechi; osechi-ryōri; traditional food eaten during the New Year's holidays
bowl (wooden); counter for bowls of food or drink
soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)
to copy; to imitate; to counterfeit; to forge
innocent; chaste; naive; pure; unmixed; genuine
painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
originally; essentially; naturally; in the first place; to begin with
diligent; hardworking; healthy; well; faithful; honest
to miss (doing); to fail (to do); to do without
removing a bad taste; cleansing one's palate; palate cleanser; intermezzo; dish or beverage to cleanse one's palate between dishes of a meal
(woman's) undersash; datemaki; rolled omelette mixed with fish paste (omelet)
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
Swiss roll; jelly roll; roll cake
creative cookery; creative cuisine
mashed sweet potatoes with sweetened chestnuts
Mont Blanc (chestnut and cream dessert)
to choke; to be choked (by); to sob convulsively
mid-sized konoshiro gizzard shad (i.e. about 15 cm in size)
foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
fish that are called by different names as they grow larger
of good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)
traditional food; ancestral food
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii)
pickling in salt; food preserved in salt; holding on to (shares, land, etc.) for an extended period until its value increases; leaving unsold; leaving unused