御

(another person's) niece

serving tea (esp. at a company); tea server; tea lady

happy birthday

kid's lunch; kid's meal

Shinto

Amaterasu Ōmikami (sun goddess)

kindness; courtesy

bureaucratic routine; red tape

a woman's natural inclination to care for others; big-sisterly disposition

feigned ignorance

unasked for; unnecessary; uninvolved

Food, cooking

osechi; osechi-ryōri; traditional food eaten during the New Year's holidays

tearjerker; sob story; maudlin tale

Idiomatic expression

to beat someone at their own game; to outdo someone in their specialty

tea leaves

year-end gift

end of the year; year end

ohajiki; traditional children's game similar to marbles, played with coin-shaped pieces of coloured glass or plastic

Colloquial

gun; pistol

Euphemistic

to die; to decease; to perish; to pass away

oden vendor; oden restaurant

emperor's meal

okara; soy pulp; tofu dregs; edible pulp separated from soybean milk in the production of tofu

as is usual with; in common with

mother

Honorific; Shinto

Inari (god of harvests, wealth, fertility, etc.)

Honorific

Inari shrine

Polite

inarizushi (sushi wrapped in fried tofu)

Jocular, humorous term; Slang

scrotum; testicle sack

banknote; bill; note