rice plant (Oryza sativa)
Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd); gourd (container) made from its fruit
sealed letter; sealed document; enclosure
brilliant; radiant; bright; sparkling
being amazed; being horrified; being taken aback
thatched cottage; hovel; my humble cottage
dilapidated house; tumbledown house; my house; my home; small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls)
kind; considerate; helpful; caring; thoughtful; attentive
consideration (for); thoughtfulness; solicitude; care; watchfulness; concern
direction; way; point of the compass; cardinal direction; method; means
to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops)
to lose (a chance); to miss (a chance); to overlook; to omit; to deviate; to depart from (the norm, etc.)
to ask after (someone's health); to visit; to attack; to strike; to meet with misfortune
Yamagata (city, prefecture); mountain shape; chevron; cone
senility; senile decay; infirmity (through age)
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
visit (to a religious site, e.g. shrine, temple, grave)
close; intimate; on good terms
advance warning; previous notice; announcement; herald; harbinger; forerunner
to clamber (up); to scale
crippled; deformed; imperfect; incomplete; one wheel
repentance; confession; penitence
as one pleases; irresponsibility; free-for-all
now (while the time is ripe); while one still can
a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family
plan; meter; measuring device; (in) total; total (of)
thin arm; slender arm; slender means; meager ability to earn a living
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
to till a rice paddy; to plough a rice paddy (plow)
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful