fat; fatty; grand; magnificent; excellent
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
work; workmanship; craftsmanship; artifice; trick; device
crossing; passage; importing; import; wandering; wanderer; migration
(your) business; (your) concern; (customer's) order; official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.); arrest; capture
discipline; training; teaching manners
don't you think?; indicates question
inner palace (in Edo Castle); palace's ladies chambers; shogun's harem
to meet (someone of higher status); (arch.) to be recognized (esp. by someone of higher status); (arch.) to be visible; (arch.) to be seen
to gather in large numbers (of people); to hang out (as a large group); to assemble (as a military unit or posse); to be quartered (in a particular location)
verbal message; word (from someone)
kitchen door; back door; service door; host's entrance to a tea-ceremony room
stepping stones; stone skipping; ducks and drakes
woman; lady; adult female
with a click (door sound); with tenseness or firmness
to wear one's hair up; to arrange one's hair
plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit
refined; genteel; graceful; decent
to start to say; to attempt to say; to be about to say; to speak to; to address
to invite in; to show someone in
to leave behind; to put off; to postpone
to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)
(another's) daughter; young lady
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling
detached building; solitary house; room detached from main house; separation from; loss of interest in; independence of
for use of customers or guests
sign of life; human presence; humanity; humaneness
living room (Western style); sitting room
snugly; neatly; compactly; cosily
as much as one can; as much as possible; if at all possible
styptic; stopping of bleeding
changing clothes; change of clothes
outsider's perspective; as seen by an observer
to see through; to see into (someone's heart, mind, etc.); to perceive; to find out; to detect
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive