to be impatient; to be eager; to be restless; to be excited; to be in high spirits
postcard; memo; note; card
ceremonial hall (e.g. wedding, funeral); hall for ceremonies; place of ceremony
huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
Japanese-style (esp. in reference to squat toilets)
Western-style; foreign; Western-style toilet; flush toilet; water closet
one's family register; one's domicile; nationality; membership (club, party, etc.)
taking up a post away from one's family; job transfer without one's family; living apart from one's family for the sake of one's job; unaccompanied posting
memorial day; commemoration day; anniversary
noisily (esp. the noise of heavy feet)
bodily; with all one's weight; with one's whole body
huff!; yo-heave-ho!; yoisho! (word shouted by the spectators during a yokozuna's ritual stomps); yoisho (filler word in folk music, etc.); flattery; buttering up (someone)
Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)
sofvi; toy figure made from soft vinyl (monster, hero, etc.); soft vinyl mascot figure
summoning circle (esp. in fantasy fiction); magic circle
ambiguous; obscure; equivocal
older sister; lass; young lady
real life; actual life; everyday life
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
turning around; spinning around; curling up; round and charming (e.g. eyes)
figure; design; twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes; style (of writing); figure (of speech); design
towards the ground; with respect to the ground; ground (speed, attack, etc.)
dear (old); fondly remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January
race game (board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track); ban-sugoroku; sugoroku; traditional Japanese board game similar to backgammon
fukuwarai; New Year's game in which blindfolded players place cutouts of facial features onto the outline of a face
karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards, esp. hyakunin isshu karuta or iroha karuta
(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game
computer game; video game
digital native (person who has grown up in the age of computers, the Internet, etc.)
deferment (e.g. of savings); leaving (something) as it stands; unredeemed; unredeemable; irredeemable
fighting (against); taking on (an opponent); facing; confronting; competing (with); battle
to lend; to loan; to let out on hire
time limit; time restriction
tray; family; household; Obon; Bon Festival; gambler's den