major cleanup; spring cleaning
estate; homestead; house and land (it stands on); messuage
ceremony; rite; ritual; service
cleaning dust etc. from rooms; housecleaning; (the traditional Japanese end-of-the-year, 13th December) big house cleaning; spring cleaning (only not in spring)
year-end and New Year holidays (e.g. from December 29 to January 3)
smoked food; smoking (fish, meat, etc.); smoked
standard item; usual thing; (a) classic; basic item (with stable demand); staple goods
one's home country; one's homeland
preference; priority; precedence; right of way
direction; way; person; lady; method of; manner of; care of ...
re-covering; repapering; reupholstering
to sweep; to brush; to clean; to gather silkworms
to (see and) choose; to select; to diagnose (as); to judge; to estimate; to liken (to)
cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing
dish towel; tea towel; dishcloth
pleasantly warm; nice and warm; repeatedly (hitting someone); again and again; over and over
to stick (to); to cling (to); to adhere (to); to stay (in a place); to stick close (to someone); to follow (someone) around
engawa; external corridor on the outer side of traditional Japanese houses; bone at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish); meat at the base of a fin
shape of the "dai" kanji (esp. person with arms and legs outstretched); sprawling; lying spread-eagled
extremely busy; short-handed; (lit.) wanting even the help of a cat
many people talking noisily; chowing down; scarfing down; roughly (of actions)
penalty; sentence; punishment
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
fingers; fingertips; underling; stooge; tool
sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness
New Year's pine decoration
to be free; to be available
to help; to assist; to aid; to contribute to; to be a factor in
to open out (of a view, scenery, etc.); to spread out; to improve (of luck, prospects, etc.); to get better; to develop (of a town, civilization, etc.); to become civilized; to be sensible
materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis
Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora); Japanese umbrella pine; tanyosho pine
black pine (Pinus thunbergii); Japanese black pine
decorating shrines and gates with shimenawa ropes for the New Year
southern sky; heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica); nandina
ornamental kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)
one-by-one; separately; in detail
pine tree (Pinus spp.); highest (of a three-tier ranking system)