hut; cabin; small theatre (theater); temporary playhouse; one's own house
Amitabha (Buddha); Amida; ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; wearing a hat pushed back on one's head
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
scene; spectacle; sight; view
public acknowledgment; public acknowledgement; public recognition; commendation; awarding
to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to
endurance; perseverance; patience
interval; period of time; among; between; good opportunity; chance
depression; lowlands; low ground; bottom land; plain
circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral
hygiene; sanitation; health
person in charge; official; attendant
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
bed; bedding; sickbed; alcove; riverbed; seedbed; straw "core" of a tatami mat
people; (all) persons; you (usu. plural); various
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
dirty; filthy; disordered; messy; indecent (language, etc.); dirty
sense; sensation; feeling; intuition
starvation; famine; hunger
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
divining sticks; counting; calculation
illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
calculation; reckoning; count; forecast
abundant; plentiful; rich; wealthy; open (mind); relaxed
division; splitting; sharing; distribution; dissemination; allocation