receiving; welcoming; going to meet; final call; call of fate; approach of death
garden (esp. man-made); orchard; park; place; location
commuting to nursery school or kindergarten
helmet; hard hat; protective headgear
turning round; going around; turning about; surrounding; encircling
downhill; downward slope; descent; decline; waning; ebb
roller coaster; big dipper
human power; human strength; human effort; human agency
surroundings; circumference
going to kindergarten (nursery school, etc.)
childcare leave; leave taken after the compulsory maternity leave
reduction in working hours; reduction in business hours; time-saving
online shopping; e-commerce; mail order
certified center for early childhood education and care; ECEC; certified child center; type of combined day-care center and kindergarten
to look after; to take care of; to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment)
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
flapping; rattling (sound); noisily; commotion; kerfuffle
garden; kindergarten yard; playground
long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle
bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
wallpaper; wallpaper; background image; desktop image
wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law
finishing kindergarten; graduating from kindergarten
congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present
kindergarten entrance ceremony
waist; waistline; waist measurement
the vertical; height; front-to-back; length; north-to-south; vertical (relationship)
to lose focus; to let one's mind wander; to relax one's attention
postpartum; after childbirth
making (a new suit, dress, etc.); having (something) made; buying new; new tune; new melody; new composition
figure; body shape; build; physique; form
suddenly and forcefully (e.g. jerk, poke, shove); in a single gulp; in one go
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
leading part; leading actor; leading actress
anyhow; in any case; at any rate; at best; at most