to suffer; to groan; to be worried
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
sanity; consciousness; soberness
compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement
unexpectedly; unusually; considering all that
mess; spoiled; spoilt; (come to) nothing; ruin
to turn (one's face) away; to avert (one's eyes)
low table; table with very short legs
naked person (esp. child)
middle-aged man; Buddhist priest
doubt; misgivings; distrust; suspicion
speech and conduct; words and deeds
raising the curtain; opening (of an event); start of a season
undressing; taking off one's clothes
decrease; reduction; decline
without; but if; otherwise; or else
appeal; call for something; request; axiom
chattering; chit-chat; (ladies) prattle
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
student (esp. a university student)
first shrine visit of New Year
dressed up (in fine clothes)
exposure; laying bare; baring (e.g. skin); (photographic) exposure
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
expansion; extension; enlargement; escape; ESC
interior design; interior; upholstery
cartoonist; comic book artist; manga artist; manga author; mangaka
to sweep; to brush; to clean; to gather silkworms
(one's) Sunday best; (one's) best clothes; glad rags
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
attaching the polite suffix "-san" to somebody's name
New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January
preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism); second highest priestly rank in Buddhism; monk (esp. the head monk of a temple); master (of one's art, trade, etc.)
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present