stone sauna; facility where one rests on towels laid on a slab of heated natural rock
child on waiting list (kindergarten, school, etc.)
man who enjoys child rearing
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
childcare leave; leave taken after the compulsory maternity leave
famous sword; sword blade by Masamune; sake; Japanese rice wine; brand of sake from Nada region during Tenpō era (1830-1844)
nursing; nurturing; rearing; lactation; suckling
eeny, meeny, miny, moe; eenie, meenie, minie, moe
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
many-sided; multifarious; versatility
enrollment in kindergarten; enrolment in nursery school; entering a park, garden, zoo, etc.
maternity leave; paternity leave
talking about (behind one's back); backbiting
to skin (one's knee); to graze; to scratch
wrasse (any fish of family Labridae)
nursery school teacher; childcare worker
prattle; broken language; halting language; baby talk; imperfect speech; smattering
nothing but; nothing more than; nothing less than
life and death; life or death
a question (an issue) of where responsibility (liability) lies; a question of who is responsible (to blame)
taking one's children along (to an event, into a new marriage, etc.); parent with child
parenthood; parent or someone with children on the way (esp. an expecting mother); (of a fish) containing roe (eggs)
complicated and mysterious
(not even) an inch; (not even) a little bit; (lit.) one millimeter
x (mark); cross; MDMA; ecstasy; molly
elephant (Elephantidae spp.)
private affairs; personal matter
or; otherwise; furthermore; also; (arch.) perhaps; (arch.) by some chance; (arch.) that being said
job hunting; job searching
to be unable to understand; to baffle one's understanding; to be beyond one's comprehension
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as...; expresses a command
empty air; sky; shunyata; emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness
to take measures; to work out a plan; to lecture; to read aloud; to confer