great delight; great satisfaction; rapture
to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated
elder; senior; senior monk; dean; presbyter
temporarily; short period; once; one morning
one sheet; one page; one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant); one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.); one chō (unit of distance, 109.09 m); one game
toothpick; skewer for eating moist wagashi (steel, bamboo, etc.)
plane; sharpen; whittle; pare; shave (leather); scrape off
picking up; someone who picks up things; type picking (letterpress printing); walking (of an aristocrat)
(eating up) quickly; in no time; quickly (sticking out one's tongue); licking; licking up; (peeling off) in one go
entrance; threshold; beginning; first step; start
to hang (something) on (something); to throw on (clothes); to hook; to catch; to cheat; to evade payment; to drink (alcohol)
bamboo shoot; inexperienced doctor; quack
totteringly; staggeringly; unsteadily; lanky; spindly; slender
nodding off (while sitting); dozing
oh my god!; oh my gosh!; you got me!; wow!
side gate; side door; service entrance
continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago
a pass allowing one through a gate
gatekeeper; door guard; doorman; concierge; janitor
drunkenness; intoxication
to get dead drunk; to get blind drunk
scolding; telling-off; rebuke; complaint; grumbling; fault-finding
bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
waiting for someone to arrive
panel; wainscoting; wainscotting; plight; fix; bind
wire netting; wire mesh; wire screen; chain-link mesh
waist-high partition wall; breast wall
gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture); central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple); central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)
to take more time than expected; to take a long time; to be delayed
kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; kabuki play; kabuki performance; make-believe; ruse
mud wall with a roof; roofed mud wall
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
wind blowing through fresh verdure; mountain air
brocade; fine dress; fine clothes
kin; catty; pound (unit of weight); loaf (of bread)
hook; hook bracket (Japanese quotation mark)
to dive (into or under water); to get under; to get into; to hide oneself (esp. from the government); to conceal oneself