blackened; black-painted; black-lacquered; blackened thing
wherein; therein; thereinto
cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes; remains (of war dead)
hallway slippers; indoor shoes
keep ...-ing; have been ...-ing; leaving (something) on; leaving (something) still in use
guilty (feeling, conscience, look, etc.); (feeling) uneasy
while alive; during one's lifetime
anyway; anyhow; at any rate; in any case
what; what sort of thing; everything; anything; what (on earth)?; what's the meaning of this ...?
process; procedure; sequence; protocol; instruction
common use; communal use; sharing
Buddhist (household) altar
to offer incense (for a departed person); to light an incense stick
poor-quality; shoddy; unskillful; inexpert; unlucky
the deceased; the departed
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
pressing one's hands together in prayer; triangular frame of a thatched roof; yours sincerely; yours truly
(before a) Buddhist altar; before the Buddha; offering placed on a Buddhist altar; incense money; condolatory offering
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
representation; agency; proxy; deputy; agent; attorney
long time; long interval; for quite some time
bed; bedding; sickbed; alcove; riverbed; seedbed; straw "core" of a tatami mat
to bend down; to bow down; to prostrate oneself; to hide oneself
spurious article; forgery; counterfeit; imitation; sham
to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of; to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title)
to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe and humor (humour)
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
by all means; at all costs; absolutely
secrecy; confidentiality; privacy; one's circumstances (esp. fiscal)
to greedily try to win big (e.g. in mahjong); to swipe; to nick; to pilfer
one's home country; one's homeland
to take home; to carry home; to bring back home; to take out (e.g. food)
item; article; dish; course; finest item
please; somehow or other; one way or another
secrecy; confidentiality; one's circumstances (esp. fiscal); kitchen
to be vague; to speak ambiguously; to be evasive; to not commit oneself
and; thereupon; because of that
proxy; agent; substitute; deputy; alternate; representative
reason; logic; sense; truth; right