smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); urine; piss; elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name)
older sister; elder sister
(taking a) bath; hot spring cure
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance
to polish; to shine; to burnish; to refine (a skill, etc.); to improve; to hone
accomplishments; taking lessons (in dance, music, tea ceremony, flower arranging, etc.)
look here; I say; well; I know what; I'll tell you what; just a minute
husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)
master (of a house, shop, etc.); husband; sir; boss; patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy
board (in shogi, go, chess, etc.); (phonograph) record; disc; board; panel
play; playing; game; play and dance (at a kindergarten or elementary school)
accompanying; being accompanied by; going with
chance; opportunity; occasion
hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
good-for-nothing; useless; worthless
in high spirits; excited; energetic
so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense
to cut off (from); to separate; to detach; to sever; to uncouple
(not) in the least; (not) at all; (not) a bit
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
bereavement; separation by death; loss
to go to bed; to go to sleep; to fall asleep; to be laid up (with a cold); to be ill in bed
to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain
talking in one's sleep; somniloquy; nonsense; gibberish
to say; to spatter; to prate; to prattle; to babble
abandonment; renouncement; renunciation; resignation; abdication; surrender
to appear uncomfortable (with); to seem to hate; to express dislike
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
sticky; thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied); all over (pasting, stamping, etc.); clinging (e.g. of a person); following around
naughty boy; mischievous boy; little rascal; brat
shunga; erotic or pornographic woodblock prints
direction; orientation; suited to; suitable for; tendency; inclination
lasting long; continuation; keeping at (something); sticking to (something)
portrait; likeness; sketch (of a face)
to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck
curious; strange; unusual
considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal
chief clerk (in a shop, managing affairs on the owner's behalf); head clerk; store manager
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
bone; frame; outline; core; backbone; spirit
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
ball (for sport, games, etc.); kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan