battle for sales at year-end; year-end shopping season
innocent; chaste; naive; pure; unmixed; genuine
congratulations!; well done!; best wishes!; all the best!
to mistake (for something or someone else); to be unable to recognize
feel uneasy; on tenterhooks; in suspense; on pins and needles
(ceremonial) arrow used to drive off evil
prayer (for something); supplication
New Year's gift (usu. money given to a child by relatives and visitors)
chance; start; opportunity; cause; reason; excuse
to relax one's efforts; to let up; to let one's guard down
setting a bad example to others
still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less
cutting in round slices; round slice; dividing into groups (e.g. by ability)
to dip out; to scoop up; to ladle out
pan lid; pot lid; kanji "kettle lid" radical (radical 8)
fine weather; fair weather
pleasantly warm; nice and warm; repeatedly (hitting someone); again and again; over and over
teriyaki (meat or fish marinated in sweet soy sauce and broiled)
roar; cry (esp. of triumph); battle cry; screech (of a bird); scream; yawp
to lament; to grieve; to regret; to deplore
to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails
to polish up; to shine up
to have one's eye caught on something; to have one's attention drawn to something
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
change; alteration; substitute; spare; rate of exchange
buying; shopping; buyer; purchase
directly managed store (as opposed to a distributor)
your daughter; young woman
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
solid body; three-dimensional object; multi-storey car park
neat and clean; tidy; trim
to play around; to gallivant about
person who gets lonely easily; person who does not like to be alone; person who craves company
woven mat (of sedge, hay, etc.)
third month of the lunar calendar; Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE); Yayoi culture; (arch.) thick growth (of grass, etc.)
close friend; bosom friend; buddy; crony; chum
no big deal; no match; not worth worrying about