10-point card; tane; animal card
match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; (lit.) bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting)
city girl; fashionable girl
the five 20-point cards (high-scoring meld)
first year of elementary school; first year elementary school student
(ceremonial) arrow used to drive off evil
traffic safety; driving safety; road safety
dear; darling; adorable; precious; cute; lovely
taking the field first, thus batting second
lathe; potter's wheel; windlass; pulley
beautiful woman with cold, standoffish air
arista; awn; (grain) beard
ehehe (embarrassed laugh); ahaha
shrine office; office of a Shinto shrine
daruma; tumbling doll; Bodhidharma; prostitute
easy delivery; easy childbirth; safe birth
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way
living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet
heeding; paying attention; bearing in mind
moon viewing (esp. during the eight month of the lunar calendar)
halo; aureole; aureola; halo (optical phenomenon); glory
(it was) not until; (it was) only when
long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle
Chinese firebird; Chinese phoenix
to rule; to govern; (arch.) to see; (arch.) to look; (arch.) to watch
first shrine visit of New Year
unfavourable comparison; unfavorable comparison
tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); moutan; wild boar (meat)
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
hair style; coiffure; hairdo
type of household amulet or talisman, issued by a Shinto shrine, hung in the house for protection