sealed letter; sealed document; enclosure
uncle; old man; mister; manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)
doing together (as equals); sharing; common (land, etc.); joint (statement, etc.); cooperation; co-operation
project; enterprise; business; (arch.) act; (arch.) deed; (arch.) conduct
plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme
urgent; pressing; immediate; urgently; promptly; at once
advance arrangements; preparatory meeting; overlap (of a coat, etc.); (arch.) making something match exactly
business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed
to clasp; to grasp; to hold (the answer); to have (e.g. the solution); to seize (power); to hold (the reins)
most part; greater part; majority
senility; dotage; decrepitude
to cover (with something); to put on (e.g. on someone else's head); to plate something (with a metal); to pour or dash a liquid (on something); to charge (a person with a guilt)
northward; facing the north; nobleman's true wife
to turn toward; to look (up, down, etc.); to face (e.g. east) (of a building, window, etc.); to look out on; to point (of an arrow, compass needle, etc.); to be suited to
running errands; going on errands; (transaction of) business; going about one's business; doing one's business (i.e. at the toilet); going to the washroom
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
ancestor; forefather; foremother
casserole of rice, fish or meat, and vegetables
sunken hearth; sunken fireplace
to sit down (and refuse to move); to sit-in (in protest)
full stomach; bellyful; (eat) heartily; to one's heart's content
meeting; greeting; welcome
this and that; this or that; one thing or another; around; about; round about
to be petrified; to be unable to move; to be paralyzed (with horror); to be stupefied (with amazement)
clothes; garment; gown; robe; coating (e.g. glaze, batter, icing)
geta supports made out of magnolia wood; geta with these supports
oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.; hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute)
geta; Japanese wooden clogs; turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character
the form of a Buddhist priest; priestly attire
Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld); Ksitigarbha; Jizō
to tread down so as to harden (soil, snow, etc.)
passage; pathway; roadway; avenue; aisle
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
high and low; rise and fall
Buddhist priest; monk; boy
Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny
son (of others); boy; young master; green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world