tatami chair; legless chair; small, legless chair used while sitting on tatami
fusuma; Japanese sliding screen
Buddhist family chapel; altar room
to examine; to check; to inspect
futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
creak; squeak; creaking; discord; strife; friction
fricative; fricative consonant
barefaced (e.g. lie); shameless; transparent; pure white; very clear
to tear off; to strip; to rob
duvet; bed cover; coverlet; quilt; comforter; eiderdown
cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
bath; bathing; bathhouse; public bath; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)
to breathe one's last; to pass away; to die; to expire
state of mind; (one's) mental state
investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody
to tire of; to lose interest in; to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
gurgling down; being sucked into; caving in suddenly
to get information out of a person; to begin listening
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
street corner; road turn; bend in the road; turning point; watershed
to rise; to swell; to be promoted
nonexistent; unreal; imaginary; spurious
timidity; cowardice; prudence; pedantry
tinnitus; ringing in the ears
to hit a nerve; to get on one's nerves
as (X, then Y); with; in accordance with; in proportion to
pitch dark; total darkness
to paint over; to paint out; to fill in; to cover completely (with paint)
fading; faded colour; faded color
to ask a high price; to overcharge
to entrance; to possess; to enthrall
three times; thrice; many times; over and over again; often
frequency (of occurrence)
to be in a hurry; to be impatient; to be anxious (to do); to get a fright; to panic; to get flustered
thick; viscous; muddy; dirty (with oil, grease, etc.); to be in an ugly state (of emotions, relations, etc.); to be murky
bursting with youth and energy (esp. young woman); vivaciously young; (fish) jumping around energetically (e.g. when caught in a net); bursting (e.g. seams); tight; splattering (e.g. cooking oil)
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
blind spot (e.g. of a driver); dead angle; dead ground; dead space
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum