corridor; gallery; hallway; cloister (i.e. covered walk typically circling a building or garden, esp. in a palace or place of worship)
frequently; repeatedly; eagerly; keenly; hard; terribly
to draw around (e.g. a curtain); to drag around; to take (someone) around; to parade around; to order about; to lead
end; close; finish; noh dance in plain clothes
tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)
tatami room; tatami mat room; formal Japanese room; dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends)
estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately
to finish; to get it over with; to settle; to pay back; to get along (without something); to make do with (without)
hot water; hot bath; hot spring; molten iron
room; wife (of someone of high rank); scabbard; Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
little girl; maiden; young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)
to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
agency; commission; reception (of guests); conveyance (of messages)
waiting on a table; serving (at dinner); waiter; waitress; office boy; office girl
pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants
guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
alone; by oneself; on one's own
to speak; to talk; to argue; to manage; to dispose of; to carry through
thoughtless; reckless; seldom; rare; ordinary; usual
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
obi; kimono sash; paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.; band; belt; cingulum
colouring; coloring; sex appeal (esp. of women); sexiness; interest in the opposite sex; sexual feelings; charm
to tie; to bind; to bear (fruit); to close (e.g. deal); to confirm; to connect (two distant places); to close tightly
old-fashioned; archaic; antique; antiquated
light; lamp; obsolete unit of luminous intensity (approx. 1.0067 candela)
corridor; hallway; passageway
ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)
platform; podium; (ceremonial) mound; world (of haiku, art, etc.); (literary) circles; (arch.) mandala
(turning) round and round; in circles; wrapping around; winding around
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
stairs; stairway; staircase
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
to take someone (to some place); to take someone along; to lead someone away
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but
cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing