absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; neglecting (e.g. one's studies); leaving unattended
care-taking; house-sitting; house-watching; caretaker; house-sitter
answering machine; answerphone
answering machine; answerphone
house-sitting; house-sitter; caretaker (official post in the Edo period); keeper
to take charge during someone's absence
house where the family is out
to neglect (e.g. one's studies); to leave unattended
unattended (video, audio) recording; message left on the answering machine
karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards, esp. hyakunin isshu karuta or iroha karuta
to pretend to not be home; to pretend to be out
karuta gathering (for playing uta-garuta)
family members left at home
hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower)
utagaruta; traditional matching game played with cards with stanzas of waka written on them
absence of the gods from their shrines in October (while they are visiting the Grand Shrine of Izumo)
lacquered sake barrel (often used at weddings and other celebratory events)
karuta game in which players race to grab cards associated with a given reading
The Willow Barrel (collection of Edo-period senryu) (abbr); Haifu Yanagidaru
dried squid; dried cuttlefish; Japanese common squid (Todarodes pacificus); (thing that) grows on one over time
brother; lay brother; non-ordained member of a Christian religious order
iroha karuta; matching card game usu. consisting of 48 reading cards and 48 picture cards
cypress vine (Ipomoea quamoclit); cypressvine morning-glory; cardinal creeper