commuting to nursery school or kindergarten
Kōhaku Uta Gassen; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK)
arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry; literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.; otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank; (people) making offerings (esp. of fish)
to pour water on; to irrigate
high window; clerestory window
Ratnasambhava; The Jewel-born (a dhyani-Buddha)
one's daughter and heiress
spraying; sprayer; atomizer; atomiser
sending a manuscript to the printer; receiving a manuscript from the author
one's principal residence; main home
getting an advance (on one's salary)
accident; disaster; incident; uprising; emergency
to begin to write; to begin writing; to begin to draw; to begin drawing; to begin painting
rainfall; snowfall; alighting; descending
to tidy up; to put in order; to settle (problem); to clear (dispute); to finish; to bring something to an end
meeting place; assembly hall
living by oneself; living alone
son-in-law taken (adopted) into family
shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff
each time; always; often; thank you for your continued patronage
mountain forest; forest on a mountain; montane forest; mountains and forest
plain; plateau; tableland
seeing (or dropping) off, then later picking up or going to meet (the same person)
staying somewhere else (overnight); spending the night away (e.g. from home); going home (e.g. from hospital) for the night; sleepover
unable to leave the work at hand; right in the middle of something; tied up; busy
ill-bred; impolite; rude; impudent; insolent; blunt
hard to reach place; remote place
happy memory; sweet memory
shore; bank (of a body of water)
one-way (trip); one-way ticket
to sense; to suspect; to get an inkling (of something); to get wind of; to smell (e.g. danger); to become aware of (e.g. a plot)