surname; family name; last name
one's original family name; maiden name
pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
good-natured person; good person; (one's) lover; boyfriend; girlfriend
untalkative; quiet; taciturn; reticent; uncommunicative
unsociable; unfriendly; blunt; surly; curt; cold
hard to please; moody; crusty; fastidious
father-in-law; foster father; stepfather
to disappear; to vanish; to go; to leave; to die
grandfather; male senior-citizen
long ago; previous; of a former age
normally being cold but at some prompt suddenly becoming lovestruck; hot-cold personality type
to act lovestruck; to be fawning; to act affectionate
Sunday; day (of the month); counter for days; Japan
to be possible to say; to be able to say; (arch.) said; (arch.) have said
to live; to get along; to spend (time)
twenty-third day of the month; twenty-three days
at leisure; in a relaxed manner; in a carefree manner; quietly; peacefully
pile; pool; gathering spot; waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring; liquid runoff from miso preparation; tamari
to emit; to spout; to spurt; to boil over
sudden; abrupt; rapid; sharp; drastic; radical
to age; to grow old (esp. in appearance); to show marks of age
to summon courage; to be brave
nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); the second (e.g. Edward II); son
for a moment; for a minute; for a while; for some time; for the time being; for now
contact; connectedness; rapport; mutual touching
castella (type of sponge cake)
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
to disappear; to vanish; (arch.) to die
what do you want?; can I help you?
history of; experience of
... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...
to detain; to check; to restrain