to prepare; to provide; to set up; to establish; to organize
hearth; fireplace; furnace; kiln
cooking; food preparation
anciently; formerly; old times; a long time ago
ratio; proportion; match; equal; explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing); Philippines
digression; many divergences
ground; land; the region in question; the local area; skin; texture; fabric
clothes; clothing; garments
live tree; green wood; unseasoned wood
dull (e.g. a knife); blunt; thickheaded; obtuse; dull (sound, color, etc.); dim (light)
bugling (sound); honking; grumbling; complaining; car; automobile
person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff
oblong; landscape orientation
tatami chair; legless chair; small, legless chair used while sitting on tatami
pleasant; agreeable; comfortable
camp stool; folding stool
wedding hall; marriage hall; wedding place; wedding location
seat; bench; temporary job while looking for a better job or until one marries
foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji; (arch.) money
X; x; unknown quantity; an unknown
to join together; to combine; to join up
upper end; top; tip; top edge
to fold up; to fold into layers
carrying (on one's person or in the hand); mobile phone; cell phone
recent past; recent times; early modern period (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period)
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
action; movements; motions; bearing; behaviour; behavior
life and death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death
bedroom; bedchamber; (arch.) roost; (arch.) nest
zabuton (flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling; usu. rectangular)
pillow; bolster; introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story); lead-in