near oneself; close to one; familiar
lower floor; downstairs; bottom of the stairs; foot of the stairs
busy; hurried; confused; flurried
one's house; one's home; one's family
straight; quickly; quietly; gently; to feel refreshed; to feel satisfied
to jump out; to rush out; to appear (suddenly); to protrude; to project; to butt in
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
quite indifferent; looking blank; looking as though one has nothing at all to do with what is going on
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
day after tomorrow; wrong (e.g. direction)
in three days' time; two days after tomorrow
absurdity; contradiction; incoherence; irrelevance
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
childcare; child-rearing; nursing; upbringing
being in dire distress; being hard put to it; the four and eight kinds of suffering
verbal message; word (from someone)
it is I who should say so
to choose one's words (with care); to be careful with one's words
(what) one is trying to say; (what) one wants to say; (what) one is saying; (what) one means
to complete decisively; to do to completion
on bad terms; at loggerheads
imagined landscape; scenery in one's mind's eye
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but
tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing
soft and flaky (pie, potatoes, squash, etc.); fluffy; crumbly; being pleased with oneself; beaming happily; chuckling to oneself
to rise up (e.g. pillar of smoke); to go up
nail (e.g. fingernail, toenail); claw; plectrum; pick; hook; clasp
deep red; crimson; rouge; lipstick
to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt
red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
to dye; to colour; to color
manicure; nail polish; nail varnish
poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty
braid (hair, cord. etc.); plait
chignon (ladies' hairstyle)
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry