handmade; homegrown; hand-crafted; homemade
confections; sweets; candy; cake
good outward appearance; looking nice; being attractive; making a fine show
to talk to oneself; to mutter
all together now!; one, two, go!; ready, set, go!; heave, ho!; oops-a-daisy
shout (of encouragement, etc.); yell (used to time or encourage activity, e.g. "Heave ho!")
that's the way it is; such is life
instantly; immediately; equals; means; oneness (of two opposing things); inseparability
buying; shopping; buyer; purchase
company; corporation; workplace
piece; fragment; one (object)
shame; disgrace; raping; rape
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside
long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle
right; correct; proper; righteous; just
way of writing; manner of writing; penmanship (esp. used in old textbooks); calligraphy; format (e.g. of a report); stroke order of a character
friendly chat; pleasant chat; lighthearted talk; friendly conversation
to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in
Milky Way; luminous band corresponding to the plane of the galaxy
to keep someone from doing; to stop; to prevent; to check; to hinder; to obstruct
woman textile worker; Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae
Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae
to meet fortuitously (e.g. running into an old friend); to meet by chance; to happen across
bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
wish; dream; prayer; one's desire
to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember
exemplar; model; example; pattern
to approach; to draw near
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to create (an atmosphere, feeling, etc.); to produce; to engender
friendly; affable; amiable; sociable; loving company; (animals) taking kindly to men
schoolyard; playground; school grounds; campus
just as (each) one likes; as (each) one pleases; as (each) one prefers; (each) in one's own way
there; over there; genitals; private parts; that far; that much
anonymity; using an assumed name