hi; hello; gotcha; understood
refrigerator; cold; cool; cold sake
anniversary of a person's death; monthly return of the date of someone's death
mourning clothes; mourning attire; mourning dress
air conditioning; air cooling
thorough; exhaustive; complete
idle talk; chit-chat; gossip
to be worn down; to wear away; to wear out; to dwindle; to be reduced
to hit (e.g. with a car); to knock down; to reject; to eliminate; to refuse (e.g. a request); to deny; to flip
argument; discussion; dispute; controversy
(for) household use; home use; domestic use
to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out; to lay down (e.g. a cushion); to impose widely (e.g. martial law); to promulgate; to pin down; to hold down
point in question (at issue)
to switch (secretly); to substitute; to replace; to sidestep (an issue)
standard-size car; ordinary carriage (in a train); second-class carriage; ordinary car
to hold the steering wheel; to drive (a car)
the deceased; the departed; old friend; longtime acquaintance
to conceal oneself; to hide; to endure; to bear; to stand
sobriety; soberness; sober face
quiet and subdued in appearance; solemn; sad and depressed in manner; soft; gentle
licking; dead drunk; blind drunk
to guffaw; to roar with laughter; to laugh heartily
rhyme; lime (Citrus aurantifolia); lime (mineral)
malicious gossip; backbiting; speaking ill behind someone's back
mistaken memory; trick of the memory; slip of the memory
to break (into pieces); to smash; to shatter (someone's hopes, confidence, etc.); to crush; to simplify; to make easy to understand
inarizushi; sushi wrapped in fried tofu
straw bag; sack; bale; counter for sacks (of rice, potatoes, coal, etc.)
(unrefined) brown sugar; muscovado
shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes); shitake
mixture of ingredients (originally five); mixture of minced vegetables, fish, and meat, mixed in a starch (rice, noodles); gomoku (game); five in a row
Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama); Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto); fox (said to be messengers of Inari); fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes); inarizushi
to have a drink; to grab a drink
highball; whisky and soda