white hair; grey hair; gray hair
Buddhist (household) altar
upper tier; upper section; place of honor; place of honour; dais; raised part of floor
statue of Buddha; image of Buddha; Buddhist statue; Buddhist image
ancestral; hereditary; generation after generation; passing from father to son
to decorate; to ornament; to display; to exhibit; to mark (e.g. the day with a victory); to adorn (e.g. the front page)
to offer something to a deity or somebody's spirit; to pay a tribute to a person who is about to depart
thrift; economy; frugality
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
patch; patching; join; joining; successor; heir
to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still
to act as an agent for; to intermediate; to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to convey (a message)
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
two sheets (pieces) (of paper)
immediately; at once; right away; directly; in person; first hand
riddled with holes; full of holes; full of flaws; full of loopholes; faulty
long, slender and well-proportioned; smooth, continuous (movement)
from here; from this place
to drip; to drop; to trickle; to overflow (with freshness, beauty, etc.)
to stoop; to lean over; to bend forward; to bend down; to crouch; to squat
warp; curvature; curve; arch
to go too far; to go past; to go to extremes; to overdo it
deeply in love with; madly in love with; heads over heels in love with; to be crazy about
to take on; to undertake; to take over; to inherit; to guarantee; to vouch for
rainy season (in Japan usu. from early June to mid-July); rain during the rainy season
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
to ruin oneself; to degrade oneself
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period
to set (sun); to become dark
to run; to dash; to gallop (on horseback); to canter; (arch.) to advance (against one's enemy); (arch.) to charge (on horseback)
tucking up the hem of one's garments
to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up and eat; to snack on; to pick out (the main point); to summarize
Japanese ginger (Zingiber mioga)
early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period); early Japanese Christian