protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting
care-taking; house-sitting; house-watching; caretaker; house-sitter
answering machine; answerphone
answering machine; answer phone
house-sitting; house-sitter; caretaker or keeper (official post in the Edo period)
to take charge during someone's absence
house where the family is out
to fail to be attentive to
unattended (video, audio) recording
to pretend to not be home; to pretend to be out
family members left at home
absence of the gods from their shrines in October (while they are visiting the Grand Shrine of Izumo)
one of the six administrators of a Zen temple who substitutes for the chief priest