dirt floor; room with dirt floor; pit (theater seating); parterre
wooden floor; room with a wooden floor; changing room (at a public bath)
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
cupboard; locker; closet; wardrobe; cabinet
Buddhist (household) altar
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
clanging; empty; deserted
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
twilight; sunset; dusk; evening
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
orphan; person without friends
small; little; slight; below average (in degree, amount, etc.); low (e.g. sound); soft (e.g. voice)
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
to fret; to be fretful; to be peevish
to cuddle; to comfort; to rock; to soothe; to dandle; to humor
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
to do up (hair); to dress; to arrange; to tie; to bind; to fasten
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
to collapse; to crumble; to get out of shape; to lose one's shape; to break down; to be thrown into disarray; to crash (stock market)
heartbroken; crestfallen; dejected; disappointed
civet; stew of a game animal, red wine and various alliums (often thickened with the animal's blood)
having said that; be that as it may
innocent; naive; artless; unsophisticated; pure; fresh
fully; luxuriantly; fluffy; plump; soft and full
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
labor; labour; toil; hardship
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
pitiful; pathetic; painful to look at
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
all; entire; whole; altogether
to go to bed; to go to sleep; to fall asleep; to be laid up (with a cold); to be ill in bed
high; tall; expensive; high-priced; high (level); above average (in degree, quality, etc.)
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way
at a loss for what to do; at one's wits' end; having no choice
to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem