cheap; inexpensive; calm; peaceful; quiet
to come untied; to come apart; to be softened; to be relaxed
clear broth soup, with ingredients and garnish floating in and on it
100% buckwheat soba; soba made from buckwheat flour only, without the addition of wheat flour
to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass
going through; going via; going by way of
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
cold district; northern district
famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy
to prosper; to flourish; to thrive; to become popular; to become widespread
public bathhouse; building with a bath (esp. in a shrine or temple)
buckwheat dumpling; buckwheat mash; buckwheat dough ball
to get; to secure; to learn; to master; to complete
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least
to grow long (e.g. hair, nails); to lengthen; to extend; to reach out; to hold out; to straighten; to smooth out
soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles
to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve
to break; to snap; to be injured; to wear out; to be worn out; to break; to burst
since one was born; (in) all one's life
century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time
to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
store; shop; establishment; restaurant
expressly; especially; taking the trouble (to do); intentionally; deliberately
to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem
gentle spring rain; thin noodles made from bean starch (or potato starch)
rice vermicelli; rice noodles
(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style
dried fish (or shellfish, etc.)
to put back; to return; to vomit; to throw up; to recover (of a market price)
supple; flexible; elastic; graceful; elegant; refined
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)
southern part; the south (of a region)
same kind (race); homogeneousness
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error (e.g. in calculation); to confuse; to mistake something for something else
mung bean (Vigna radiata); green gram
adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)