(my) wife; inside the home; one's family
cheerful; jovial; weather; season; spirit of yang
burr (e.g. chestnut); bur; cupule; case
congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present
festivities; celebration; wedding; marriage ceremony
twenty-fifth day of the month; twenty-five days
Inaba (former province located in the east of present-day Tottori Prefecture)
museum (esp. in memory of a person or event); memorial hall
speech meeting; oratorical meeting; meeting to hear a speech
bitter smile; wry smile; forced smile; strained laugh
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
counter for suits of clothing; arriving at ...
the end (of); last time (doing); finishing up; closing
special; auspicious; happy; naive; innocent; good-natured
fixed date; appointed day
to stay overnight; to stop (e.g. at a hotel)
traditional women's hair style, with hair worn up and arched back
tucking up the sleeves of a kimono with a tasuki
wholly; solely; entirely; principally; mostly; chiefly
Sarcandra glabra (species of flowering shrub in the family Chloranthaceae); 1000 ryō (an old Japanese coin)
nursemaid; nanny; babysitter; child-minding; babysitting
separation (e.g. of rubbish when recycling); classification; discrimination; division; distinction
man's looks; handsomeness; good-lookingness
preparation; arrangements
to bore; to tire; to weary; to use lavishly (and without regret)
being adopted into the family of one's bride
splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
to be erected; to be built
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
kimono fabrics shop; draper's shop
cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration
force; vigor; influence; authority; impetus; momentum
to strain or exert oneself; to go all out
to leave word; to leave a message
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; all kinds of this