渋

(traffic) congestion

grimace

bitterness

Shibuya City (special ward of Tokyo)

reluctantly

to grudge

to be unwilling to go out

to hesitate to say

to be reluctant to sell

to hold up

(stock market) steadiness

Shibuya-kei (pop music microgenre of the mid-late 1990s)

agonizing decision

to be reluctant to answer

huge (traffic) congestion

urbane and good-looking woman

paper treated with astringent persimmon juice

tan (color, colour)

aqueous iron rust

removing the astringent taste (from persimmons)

congestion caused by a traffic accident

traffic congestion

congestion charge

stingy person

(celebrating) Halloween in Shibuya

astringency

kakishibu

Japanese dock (a plant) (Rumex japonicus)

to frown (on)

strong or bitter (green) tea

inner, astringent skin (of a chestnut)

(a woman) to lose her roughness and become urbane and good-looking

reluctance to lend

alleviation of congestion (esp. traffic)

astringent

fan varnished with persimmon juice

to be reluctant (to do)

kakishibu

ambiguous

suffering

Shoto Museum of Art

bowel pains

astringent persimmon