cheerful; bright; clear; clean; honest
destination; whereabouts; future; prospects
achievement; performance; results; work; contribution
returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person); visiting one's parents (for a prolonged period of stay); bride's first visit to her parents after getting married; coming back (of an item; after having been on loan, etc. abroad); (arch.) temporarily returning to one's home (of a servant)
foster mother; adoptive mother
as stated; verbatim; literally
to dream (i.e. while asleep); to have a dream; to dream (of the future); to have a fleeting experience
middle of the night; dead of night
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
to entwine; to twine around; to coordinate (with); to arrest
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
to hold a grudge; to hold something against someone