requiring assistance (categ. of elderly person's support needs)
operating under reduced business hours
to give up searching (for someone or something)
Amitabha (Buddha); Amida; ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; wearing a hat pushed back on one's head
on the point of vanishing
Yoshinaga Sayuri (1945.3-)
protecting a rice field; watching over a field; person who watches over a rice field
intensive-care old people's home
booklet constituting an informal living will (containing wishes regarding one's hospitalization or funeral, and perhaps one's life story, messages to loved ones, etc.)
first appointment (to a post)
making preparations for one's death
panel; scene-panel; painted backdrop (panel at the back of a noh stage), on which a pine tree is painted
reading vertically down horizontal text (e.g. as a simple code)
(childbirth) delivery table; birthing table
heavy heartbeat; thumping; pounding
dugong (Dugong dugon); sea pig
to give off (a smell, scent, aroma); to smell of; to perfume (a room, etc.); to hint at; to suggest; to insinuate
Buddha; Shakyamuni; Buddhist image; figure of Buddha; the dead; dead person
spreading out like an open fan; becoming prosperous; folding fan; ceremonial folding fan
back fat; fatty upper part of roast pork
pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping); high, middle and low (ranking); top, middle and bottom; upper, medium, lower
message of condolence; memorial address
cannot do without something; indispensable; absolutely necessary; have to do
three-day weekend; long weekend; three holidays in a row
elementary, junior high and high school
exceeding the speed limit; speeding
East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age
somehow (or other); for some reason; without knowing why; something (or other); some ... or other
isn't it; right?; you know?