things left (to one) by the deceased; inherited item; estate; lost item; lost property
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)
without cause; without reason
student in a higher grade; upperclassman
to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to nurse
to behave like a spoiled child; to behave like a spoilt child; to fawn on; to depend and presume upon another's benevolence
wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria
to look down over; to look down on
way of speaking; intimation
moisture; damp; richness; warmth; financial leeway; gains
to be suitable; to be appropriate; to match
friendship; fellowship; camaraderie
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
close (e.g. in terms of relationship); intimate
strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa)
rosary; string of prayer beads
infant (below 1 year old); suckling baby
The Pillow Book (by Sei Shonagon)
Sei Shonagon (Poet of the Heian period, included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)
light; faint; pale; fleeting
drawer; withdrawal (of money from an account); variety of knowledge and experience useful for handling things impromptu
encyclopedia; encyclopaedia
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
tower; tall building; turret; lookout; (arch.) brothel
addition; increase; Canada
to inform; to notify; to know; to reign
seventh month of the lunar calendar
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
one leaf; one page; one sheet; (arch.) one boat
to compose (e.g. poem); to recite; to intone; to chant
waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae
pulling out one's hair; trichotillomania