to make [something] / to cook / to write a literary work / to grow, to raise / to cultivate ability, to train / to draw up, form, establish / to make an acquaintance

作る: make - make a small thing, grow vegetables / 創る: create - originate, bring into existence / 造る: build, construct - build a house, or a building

matter of taste

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

miso (fermented soybean paste) / the innards of a crab or shrimp resembling miso / the good part (from the taste of miso)

a surname

koji mold / sake (Japanese rice wine)

freely; as much as one wants

liked, favorite

fondness, favor, favour