Japanese star anise (Illicium anisatum)
memory; sense; experience
lapse of memory; forgetting for a moment something one knows well; (something) slipping one's mind
busyness; a lot of things to do; frequent use; heavy use (of); many uses
(a person's) appearance from behind; person as seen from behind; back view; retreating figure
(right at the) side; just beside
fusuma; Japanese sliding screen
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
living room (Western style); sitting room
four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room; small room esp. for assignations
place where one works; construction site; working area
hearth; fireplace; furnace; kiln; young girl; childlike young woman
source of fire; sign of fire; warmth of fire; heat
right hand; right-hand side; right-hand direction; (on) the right
to scatter around; to leave untidy; to make a mess
state; condition; circumstances; sight; spectacle
wearing a lined kimono without an undergarment
to get tired; to become exhausted; to become worn out; to become battered (from long use); to get tired of (doing); to get fed up with
dejectedly; in low spirits; downheartedly
(opening a door) with a clatter; noisily; (falling) with a clatter; with a crash; (changing) completely; totally
a (short) time; a while; one time (in the past); a period; (arch.) two-hour period
beauty; siren; courtesan; prostitute
coward; sissy; weakling; loser; milquetoast; good-for-nothing
coward; weakling; scaredy cat; wimp; sissy
Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes); wren
nurture over nature; how one is brought up matters more than one's origins
washing; sashimi chilled in iced water
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
mixture of ingredients (originally five); mixture of minced vegetables, fish, and meat, mixed in a starch (rice, noodles); gomoku (game); five in a row
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a building)
only; just; (ever) since; after; continuously; remaining (in a particular state)
hard to handle; difficult to handle; awkward to handle; hard to deal with; unwieldy
mimicking someone's speech; imitating someone's way of speaking; mimicry
pat; tap; pop; crack; cutesy suffix applied to names
nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband