apple (fruit); apple tree (Malus pumila)
intimacy; friendship; familiarity
import; importation; introduction; afferent
lifting a ban; raising an embargo; opening a season (hunting, fishing, etc.); publishing contents; revealing information
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
to pass (of time); to elapse
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
production output; number of goods manufactured
exceedingly; extremely; decisively
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
curry (esp. Japanese curry); rice and curry
with a rustling sound; rippling (of a stream, etc.); murmuring; slurping down (ochazuke); quickly and easily (e.g. write a letter); with ease
sticky; syrupy; weakly (of a flame); gently (e.g. boil); dozing off; napping
food universally loved by all citizens; comfort food
secret; secrecy; mystery; secret (e.g. to success); esoteric teachings
image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition
thickness (of a sauce, soup, etc.); viscosity; thick consistency
how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
century; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
United Kingdom; Britain; Great Britain; England
equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client
diffusion; spread; popularization; promulgation; familiarization
original; unique; distinctive; independent; one's own; personal
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period
(the) mainstream; main course (of a river); main stream
shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate
potato (Solanum tuberosum)
concerning the result (as opposed to the means used to achieve this result or the original goal)
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal
tofu; bean curd; beancurd
traditional food; ancestral food