far away; far off; nowhere near; far cry
expert; professional; master; woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes
major cleanup; spring cleaning
portrait of deceased person
New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
counter for nights of a stay; overnight stay; lodging
hot spring district (within a town)
leaving behind; desertion; abandonment
abuse; ill-treatment; maltreatment; mistreatment; cruelty
word; word; Word; Microsoft Word
personification; anthropomorphization
jūbako; multi-tiered food box
to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on
to nitpick; to complain about trifles
to name; to call; to christen; to term
savage; barbarous; barbaric; uncivilized; uncivilised
beginning of the year; early in the New Year
mochi; (sticky) rice cake
god of death; death deity; Death
sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness
freshly pounded (rice cake)
rice cakes; pounded mochi rice
every year; yearly; annually
dignity; majesty; solemnity; gravity
leading part; leading actor; leading actress
taking on (a challenge); attempt; try; tackling; challenging (someone to a contest)
please come (and visit us); please come (to our shop)
presence; appearance; attendance; visit; going out
everybody; every last one of them; all
(much) more than others; exceedingly; extremely; unusually
limitation; restriction; condition; constraints
we are of equal status in this regard; we are in the same boat; the same to you; the feeling is mutual
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
comfortable (to live in); snug; cosy; cozy
a blink of time; (lit.) the time it takes to say "Ah!"