frame for drying clothes; clotheshorse
(raining) heavily; (water rushing) plentily; with white noise; with a buzz
to sprinkle water on (something); to spray water on; to splash water on; to hinder; to hamper; to stifle
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
watering can; watering pot; sprinkling can
something wrong; accident; change; abnormality; aberration
conviction; belief; confidence
inundating a castle; cutting off a castle's water supply
manufacturing method; recipe; formula
to value; to prize; to honor; to respect
your honored father; your honoured father
cram school; private tutoring school; juku
to flatly refuse; to reject; to spurn
well-known; noted; celebrated
bags and purses (handbags)
articles; supplies; parts
rich person; millionaire; magnate; big spender; debauchee
a great variety of; diversity
thin leather with gold patterns (introduced from Europe during the Edo period)
Tenpyō era (729.8.5-749.4.14); Tenbyō era; Tenhei era
mark; sign; symbol; emblem; badge; crest
São Tomé (São Tomé and Príncipe)
metal fittings; metal fixtures
sword hilt; decorative hilt
principle; aim; main purpose; central part; pillar
(Republic of) China (i.e. Taiwan)
tie up; bind; sum; total amount; judo choking (strangling) techniques; last meal eaten when going restaurant hopping; completion
kingfisher (esp. the common kingfisher, Alcedo atthis)
the seven treasures (gold, silver, pearls, agate, crystal, coral, lapis lazuli); cloisonne ware; shippō pattern (of overlapping circles); shippō emblem
Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i
Nagato (former province located in the west of present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture)
knitting; knitted material; crochet
snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly; (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight
appropriate; suitable; proper; fitting
hazy; dim; faint; minced fish or meat that is seasoned and fried
hairlines (on an engraving)
shakudo; gold-copper alloy, often with a blue patina
mincing; cutting; rapping (a percussion instrument); beating; shredded tobacco; interval
resin; (tobacco) resin; tar; sleep (in one's eyes, i.e. eye mucus)