absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); husband
doorkeeper; doorman; porter
chief seat; seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table
lowest seat; foot of the table; seat furthest from the seat of honour; lowest rank; bottom (e.g. of the class)
remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude
rather; better; instead; if anything
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
splendid; nice; sufficient; fine (in the sense of "I'm fine"); well enough; OK
bargaining; haggling; tactics; strategy
place; room; margin; scope
to chastise; to punish; to discipline
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on
useless; futile; unnecessary; needless; not on business; unrelated
to stop by; to drop in for a short visit
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
circumstances; condition; to arrange; to manage; to lend money; to raise money
to annoy; to cause trouble
bitter experience; misery; distress; grief; sad thoughts; hardship
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
incident; affair; happening; event
trouble; troubles; worry; distress; sorrows; anguish
long-lasting; long-wearing; wears well; nagamochi; large oblong chest (for clothing, personal effects, etc.)
futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
library; book storage; stack room; archive (file)
field; plain; prairie; moor
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
to excel; to surpass; to exceed; to outweigh; to preponderate
reading matter; reading material
to look up (at); to look up to; to respect; to ask for (e.g. guidance); to seek; to depend on
meditation; silent contemplation
soul; spirit; departed soul; ghost