protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; neglecting (e.g. one's studies); leaving unattended
care-taking; house-sitting; house-watching; caretaker; house-sitter
answering machine; answerphone
answering machine; answerphone
house-sitting; house-sitter; caretaker (official post in the Edo period); keeper
to take charge during someone's absence
house where the family is out
to neglect (e.g. one's studies); to leave unattended
unattended (video, audio) recording; message left on the answering machine
to pretend to not be home; to pretend to be out
family members left at home
absence of the gods from their shrines in October (while they are visiting the Grand Shrine of Izumo)
one of the six administrators of a Zen temple who substitutes for the chief priest