housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker
stability; steadiness; equilibrium
isolation; being alone; being friendless
toilet; lavatory; powder room
thicket; coppice; brushwood
scratch; scrape; abrasion
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy
three generations; three periods; third generation
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
had better ...; may as well ...
to leave as; to view as; to maintain the status quo
reserve; spare; note; memorandum; duplicate; copy
disagreeable; unpleasant; adverse; unsympathetic
answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising
to be at a loss; to think and think but get nowhere; to fail to come up with a good idea
to grow up; to become an adult
squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii); Lepisorus thunbergianus (species of fern); color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue); ancient women's hairstyle; clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern
separate building; outbuilding; outhouse
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
line (of text); row; carya (austerities); samskara (formations); semi-cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); running style
thatching a roof (with grass); thatched roof
annotation; explanatory note; comment
living room (Japanese-style)
head; chief; leader; the greatest of all; the most excellent
(in Japanese architecture) transom
rod; pole; neck (of a shamisen, etc.); shamisen; beam (i.e. the crossbar of a balance); single line (esp. as a flying formation for geese); penis
looking like a ...; acting as if a ...
coating (esp. lacquering)
bed; bedding; sickbed; alcove; riverbed; seedbed; straw "core" of a tatami mat
tea ceremony stand with an enclosed shelf (invented by Takeno Jouou); small cupboard or closed shelf on the side of a tokonoma
mountain and water; landscape (containing hills and rivers); landscape picture; mountain stream; water that flows down from a mountain; garden which contains an artificial hill and a pond
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
loose; slack; gentle (slope, curve); slow (speed); lenient; liberal
crisp; staccato; piquant; clear
black with hints of blue (as in a bruise); bluish black