device; instrument; vessel; container; ability; capacity
oblong; vertical writing style (e.g. on envelopes); portrait orientation
impression given by a painting or image
pure; innocent; naive; unspoilt; pure-hearted; ingenuous
cutting in round slices; round slice; dividing into groups (e.g. by ability)
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
outer circumference; perimeter; outskirts; periphery
payment in advance; advance payment; prepayment
to wander from place to place; to change jobs
glossy black hair; green hair
lump-sum purchase; bulk purchase; group purchase
delineation; demarcation; drawing a line (e.g. between what's acceptable and unacceptable); (measuring) ruler
grant; allowance; endowment; bestowal; assignment; conferment
armpit; under one's arm; beside; close to; aside; to the side; off-track
to wake; to wake up; to become sober; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned
abruptly (rising); slowly (rising)
union; coalescence; amalgamation; copulation; penetration
Japanese clothing; being dressed in a kimono; Japanese-style bookbinding
common camellia (Camellia japonica)
ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run
Japanese style; light wind; moderate breeze
slide (for projection); transparency; (microscope) slide; to slide; to slip; to shift (e.g. a group of items in a schedule)
waitress (in a ryokan or traditional restaurant); hostess
tatami mat; Japanese straw floor coverings
to lay out a futon; to make a bed
public bath; communal bath; public bath or hot springs maintained by the local community and free or low fee
(only) one option; one possible choice
Japanese cypress wood bathtub; hinoki tub
rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya); grasshopper; locust (of family Catantopidae)
vegetables or fish boiled in soy sauce
far away; far off; nowhere near; far cry
quickly; briefly; rashly; carelessly; (flowing) in trickles
open air bath; rotenburo; rotemburo