lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)
fast-talking; rapid talking
to house; to contain; to carry (a baby); to be pregnant; (arch.) to give lodging to; (arch.) to accommodate
by nature; naturally; by birth; inborn
attack; offence; dominant partner of a homosexual relationship; a barrage of; a flood of
to push away; to thrust aside; to detach oneself from; to keep away from; to act coldly; to do without emotion
to insert; to put in; to plant (a cutting); to strike; to arrange (flowers); to wear (a sword) in one's belt
answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising
friendly fire; killing each other by mistake; internecine strife
to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another
ambush; troops in ambush; unexpected opposition; unexpected obstacle
birdhouse; nest box; bird box; beehive
echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit
lukewarm; tepid; disagreeably warm (e.g. bath)
to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out
crayfish (esp. Japanese crayfish, Cambaroides japonicus or red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii); crawfish
water tank; cistern; fish tank; aquarium
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
to walk; to move forward; to make progress
wild beast; wild animal; brute
nesting hole; burrow; den
shading; shielding from light
contour; outline; summary; outline; looks; features
suddenly (appear, stick out); abruptly; (stand) still and expressionless; imposingly; suddenly (stand up)
anyone and everyone; anybody at all
postbox; mailbox; pillar box
shadow; shade; shading; nuance; shades of meaning; subtleties
sattva (being); bodhisattva
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
moai; Okinawan-style social support group
in some way; somehow or other; somewhere or other
right side; right-hand side
drying machine; dryer; desiccator
primness; prim person; clear soup; water for rinsing sake cups (at a banquet, etc.)
ground glass; frosted glass
bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
bathtub; boat with a bathtub rented to customers (Edo period)
urethane foam; polyurethane