clean; hygienic; sanitary; pure; virtuous; immaculate
to keep in mind; to bear in mind; to try; to aim to do; to endeavor; to endeavour
washing one's hands; water (or basin, etc.) for washing one's hands; restroom; lavatory; hand-washing (laundry, etc.)
gargling; rinsing one's mouth
shoes strictly prohibited
to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)
to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid
Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters; Japan's oldest historical record
clerk; secretary; writing down; putting on record
to cross; to intersect; to associate with; to mingle with; to have a sexual relationship; to copulate
sex; sexual intercourse; (one's) sex; gender
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
god of fire (in Japanese mythology, usu. Kagutsuchi no Kami)
Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi)
major incident; major happening; big scandal
to writhe (in pain); to be in agony; to be anguished; to be agonized; to be troubled
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pitiful
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
hades; realm of the dead; the next world
to run away; to flee; to make off; to start to run away
for dear life; barely escaping alive
this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; crown; diadem; top kanji radical; first verse of a haikai, etc.; best; peerless
to fling; to throw off (clothes); to kick off (boots)
nudity; stark naked; in one's bare skin; penniless
to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in
sense of liberation; feeling of freedom
to tighten; to press hard
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
Europe and America; the West
be supposed or expected to (do); be sure to (do); ought to (do)
unexpectedly; surprisingly; unexpected; unanticipated; unforeseen
sound argument; fair argument; just reasoning
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
bath; bathing; bathhouse; public bath; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)
bathtub; boat with a bathtub rented to customers (Edo period)
to be submerged; to be soaked; to be pickled; to be well seasoned; to be totally immersed (in a condition, e.g. laziness)