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
karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards
to pretend to not be home; to pretend to be out
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)
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 47 reading cards and 47 picture cards