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dinnerware; cutlery

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bowl (of rice); pair (of chopsticks)

1

dealing with; coping with

1

rice and curry; curry rice

3

donburi; bowl of meat, fish, etc. served over rice

1

gyudon; rice covered with sliced beef, usu. with vegetables

1

thoroughly; through and through

1

uninvited guest

1

rapidly (e.g. progress, moving forward); growing visibly; quickly; steadily; by leaps and bounds

1

with a snap; (break) cleanly; (reject) sternly; flatly; smartly (e.g. of dressing up well)

1

triangles (used in mechanical drawing); set square

1

fellow traveler; fellow traveller; sympathizer; sympathiser

3

good at playing along; up for anything; carefree; uplifting; upbeat

1

soft, coaxing voice; wheedling voice; ingratiating voice

1

perusal; one reading

1

good

49

one thing

1

taciturn

1

convenient

4

grey (gray)

2

interruption; interference; butting in

1

or; otherwise; furthermore; also; (arch.) perhaps; (arch.) by some chance; (arch.) that being said

1

to frown (on); to be grim-faced; to look sullen

1

deductive reasoning; deduction

1

smooth; undisturbed; uninterrupted; harmonious

1

political

1

confusion; complications; being gripped by strong feelings; fit (e.g. of anger); moment (e.g. of frustration)

4

family trouble (quarrel); domestic squabble; internal squabble (over headship rights) in a daimyo family in the Edo period

1

contention; competition; rivalry; quarrel

1

(political) purge

1

adopted child (usu. male); son-in-law

6

seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

1

biological child; one's own child

1

Hideyori

1

rival candidate; opposing candidate

1

to fear; to doubt; to have misgivings about; to worry about; to be anxious about; to be apprehensive about

1

harmonious; peaceful; happy; amicable; smooth; free from trouble

5

distortion; stretch; strained interpretation; technicality; casuistry; sophistry

2

brain cell

5

to bite at; to snap at; to jump at (e.g. an offer); to snap at; to hold on to; to cling to

1

to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring

2

black; black (coffee); without cream or milk; exploitative (esp. of employees); overly harsh; boldface

1

floating; drifting; suspension; (arch.) wandering (about)

2

deep sea; depths of the sea; ocean depths

5

(the state of) weightlessness

1

watery grave (metaphor)

2

planetarium

6

to be preeminent; to be outstanding

1

solar system

3

(natural) satellite; moon; (artificial) satellite

4