居

multi-tenant building; building containing a mixture of businesses, shops and residential apartments

waitress (in a ryokan or traditional restaurant); hostess

sunken hearth; sunken fireplace

small theatre; kabuki performed in a small theatre

little performance; short acted scene; act; routine; skit

sleeping together in a huddle

house-sitting; house-sitter

Historical term

caretaker (official post in the Edo period); keeper

tenant (esp. of an apartment); occupant; resident (e.g. of a nursing home)

Imperial Palace (of Japan); imperial residence

Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; Intransitive verb

shutting oneself up in one's house; staying indoors; living in seclusion

Historical term

house arrest (Edo-period punishment)

trick; act

kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)

Architecture

lintel (esp. one with grooves for sliding doors)

moving; changing residence; change of address

Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; Intransitive verb

one's daily life

condition; well-being; state of one's health

Orig. meaning

standing and sitting; movements

monkey show

Idiomatic expression

bad acting; overacting; unconvincing performance; farce; clumsy subterfuge

one-person show; one-woman show; one-man show; performing solo; monodrama

Idiomatic expression

having a high threshold (for entry); difficult to approach; feeling awkward to go to (of someone's home)

temporary residence

to sit in a row; to be present (and lined up)

irritable; bad-tempered

playhouse; theatre; theater

to play a trick; to put up a false show; to deceive someone

Original meaning

to put on a play; to present a play; to give a play

large-scale play; play with an A-list cast

big act; big charade; false display

Historical term

theatre with a government licence (Edo period)

living alone; solitude; solitary life