to be bewildered; to be perplexed
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
cupboard; locker; closet; wardrobe; cabinet
brink; verge; critical moment; crucial moment
locking up (doors and windows); fastening the doors
sliding door (esp. when removed from its frame and used for carrying things or people); large flounder
air-damper (e.g. in chimney); (arch.) wind door; (arch.) door through which wind blows, e.g. to cool a room
Seto Inland Sea; Inland Sea
earthenware; porcelain; china; Seto ware; ceramic ware from Seto (Aichi Prefecture)
main door at the front of a house; front shutters
Mito Kōmon (televised period drama; 1969-2011)
breakwater; mole; seawall
strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern
Gate of the Celestial Rock Cave
box (built-in) for containing shutters; shutter case; door pocket
doors and shoji (sliding doors with paper panes)
you can't control what people say; you can't stop rumours (rumors)
to bust down a door; to break a door open
small cupboard on wall of tokonoma
hidden cupboard; secret cabinet; concealed closet
hanging cupboard; wall cabinet
doorstop; door stop; door stopper
you can't control what people say; you can't stop rumours (rumors)
ceramic ware from Seto (Aichi Prefecture)
sash roller; door roller; roller for a sliding door
Iwato Boom (economic boom of 1958-1961)
stage prop in kabuki, consisting of a revolving panel with a life-size doll on each side; rapid change in a situation, person's attitude, etc.
wharf; quay; landing-stage; jetty
Toita Women's Junior College
climate of the Setouchi Region
Seto Inland Sea Environmental Conservation Council
runner (of a sliding door); tree wax; insect wax; Chinese wax
trapdoor spider (any spider of family Ctenizidae); folding trapdoor spider (any spider of family Antrodiaetidae)
extensions on the top and bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame (as part of a pivot hinge)
gap (in a mountain ridge)
Sebastes joyneri (genus of fish); rockfish
Japanese foxtail (Alopecurus japonicus)