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
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
kinako; roasted soybean flour; roasted soy flour
screw; key (of a clock, watch, etc.); spring (of a clock, watch, etc.)
salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold
rice cracker; senbei; Japanese cracker; rice cookie; wafer
utensil; appliance; furniture
dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
to bend down; to bow down; to prostrate oneself; to hide oneself
to be noticeable; to notice; to catch one's eye
taciturn; reticent; quiet; silent; untalkative
middle of the night; dead of night
abruptly (rising); slowly (rising); plump; rotund
to rise; to erect; to get up
psychiatry; psychiatric department
masterpiece; best work; amusing blunder; funny mistake; boner
to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)
cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)
paper patch; paper backing; poster; sticker; label
young lady of noble birth; princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.); girl; small; cute; (arch.) prostitute
dwarf; midget; elf; Issun-bōshi (Japanese fairytale)
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very
one animal (small); (arch.) two-tan bolt of cloth
house; one's house; one's home; one's family
to tell X from Y; to distinguish; to know (one thing) from (another)
to draw (a line); to demarcate; to mark; to plan
backlight (in photography, etc.); illumination (of the subject) from behind
main temple building; nave
distinctly (standing out); clearly; in sharp relief; boldly
chestnut-color; chestnut-colour
cypress bark roof; hinoki bark thatching
to sting one's eyes; to make one's eyes smart
inner sanctuary; inner shrine; sanctum sanctorum; holy of holies; place behind main hall of a temple enshrining temple founder, miraculous Buddhas, hidden statues, etc.
to keep up (appearances); to smooth over (an error, etc.); to gloss over; to mend; to repair