(your) business; (your) concern; (customer's) order; official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.); arrest; capture
the country; countryside; outskirts; suburbs; presence; being in attendance
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
to be taught; to learn; to take lessons in
as many as one likes; as much as one likes; great many; plenty; almost (none); (not) much
frequently; repeatedly; eagerly; keenly; hard; terribly
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
to ask; to inquire; to implore (a god for an oracle); to seek direction (from your superior); to visit; to speak to (a large crowd at a theatre, etc.)
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
bed; bedding; sickbed; alcove; riverbed; seedbed; straw "core" of a tatami mat
to place (in position); to fix; to install; to seat (someone); to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)
Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture); sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
cooking, esp. frying or stir-frying; heating; tempering; -ware
to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)
as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
zabuton (flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling; usu. rectangular)
zabuton (flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling; usu. rectangular)
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
quiet (place); still; silent; inconspicuously; modestly; quietly
futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
lattice; latticework; window bars; grid; grating
to name; to take a second name or alias; to announce; to boast; to declare
something; some kind of; for some reason
drying rice on a rack; rack for drying rice
punctuation marks and other special symbols
looking for a particular person or thing; searching high and low; hunting for; picking out; singling out
thank you; thanks; much (thanks); very (sorry); quite; really; somehow
until now; so far; up to the present
(arch.) sudden; (arch.) abrupt; (arch.) stupid; (arch.) foolish; attaining enlightenment in one effort (without ascetic practices, etc.)
to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
supple; flexible; elastic; graceful; elegant; refined
to just appear; to be half out; to be on the tip of one's tongue
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly