to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)
one or two; a couple; a few; first and second (place); the top two
to drift together; to drift to the shore
what is called; what you call; what they call; so-called
woman employed in a restaurant or teahouse, often for entertainment or sexual services
care; looking after; repair; (police) raid; crackdown
to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous
leather; tanned animal hide; suede; kanji "tanned leather" radical (radical 178)
emotion; feeling; atmosphere; mood; spirit
to afflict; to torment; to harass; to molest
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
mouth with a protruding lower lip and jaw; socket; receiving window; slot
onnagata; male actor in female kabuki roles
dark (color); concentrated; thick
feelings; emotion; compassion; sympathy; passion; affection
short sleeved kimono (worn as an undergarment during the Heian period); padded silk garment
underwear; undergarment; underclothes; lingerie
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
thick board; plank; steel plate (with a thickness of at least 3 mm); heavy brocade cloth; Elaphoglossum yoshinagae (species of fern)
hey!; say!; I say!; I; me
celebration; celebratory event; congratulatory gift; tip; gratuity
to spring; to bound; to be stimulated; to be encouraged; to pay handsomely; to splurge
caller; visitor; company; guest
entertainment (of guests; esp. in the corporate world); treating (to food and drinks); wining and dining
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
a (single) moment; an instant
kamidana; household shrine; home shrine
to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship
to remove; to take off; to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from; to dodge (a question, blow, etc.)
ceiling; ceiling (e.g. of share price); ceiling price
to prepare; to provide; to set up; to establish; to organize
plain wood; unfinished woodwork
shelf; ledge; rack; trellis
curtain; act (in a play); falling of the curtain; end (of a scene); end; close; case
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
light offered to a god or Buddha; votive light
to light (a candle, lamp, etc.); to turn on (a light)
omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing
the other day; lately; recently; meanwhile; in the meantime
trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)