to ask a question; to begin to ask a question
(private) secretary; treasured book; secret book
plain; frank; candid; open; direct; straightforward
bill; bill of sale; tab (for later payment); credit; contact move (in go); direct attack to an enemy stone; sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki
honour; honor; glory; privilege
to draw around (e.g. a curtain); to drag around; to take (someone) around; to parade around; to order about; to lead
to call; to invite; to eat; to drink; to put on; to wear; to ride
please come (and visit us); please come (to our shop)
not quite (right); not very good; somewhat (lacking)
hairy caterpillar; woolly bear; pest; nudnik (nudnick)
have it your way; to hell with you!; get rooted!; bugger you!
to sniff around; to snoop around; to nose about
Bonin white-eye (Apalopteron familiare)
traditional (Chinese or Japanese) dry landscape garden
appearance; shape; form; atmosphere; look; feel
to polish up; to shine up
badger; raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)
womanly; feminine; womanish; effeminate
sunlight; sunshine; sunbeams
layout (of a house or apartment); arrangement of rooms
(Edo-period) room for confining criminals or lunatics
ten; 10; ten years of age
tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)
dim light; faint light; half-light of early morning; twilight
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest
to invite in; to show someone in
cloudiness; turbidity; nebula (medical)
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
kurin; nine vertically stacked rings on a pagoda finial
one person; ordinary; common
both people; two people; two directions; both directions
Japanese marten (Martes melampus); marten (any arboreal weasel-like mammal of genus Martes)
to be much obliged (to someone); to receive favor (favour); to be indebted; to be grateful
peace; security; tranquility; tranquillity
long slits (esp. of eyes)
relationship; relation; terms (good, friendly, etc.)
personage; person (deserving of respect)