showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay
first thing in the morning
courtyard; quadrangle; middle court
temple dedicated to Kannon
Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva); Avalokitesvara; Kannon; clitoris
equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
Urasenke school of tea ceremony
fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
home area; home town; local
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along
Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva); Avalokitesvara; Kannon; Kwannon; Guanyin; Buddhist deity of compassion
to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
start; commencement; beginning; initiation
shift; move; (work) shift; work schedule; gearshift; changing gears
on the occasion of; at the time of
one's post; one's position; one's station; one's round; one's beat; one's route
to arrive at; to reach; to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)
to be disconnected; to get out of place; to miss the mark; to get it wrong (e.g. guess, expectation); to be removed; to be excluded
to visit; to call on; to arrive (season, time, situation, etc.); to come; (arch.) to make a sound; (arch.) to send a letter
in order to; for the purpose of; must; should
slowly; unhurriedly; easily (e.g. in time); well; well (e.g. sleep); comfortably
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
greeting; a fine thing to say
on the same occasion; at the same time; coincidentally; along with; partly (to do, for)
(another's) daughter; young lady (of pampered upbringing); woman who has never known hardship; naive woman
thereupon; shortly thereafter
to go; to come; to be defeated; to collapse; to be annoyed; to be nonplussed
for generations; hereditary; generation after generation
head of a school (of music, dance); head family of a school
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
naturally; of course; understandably
(present) head of a family
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that