(n) hanging of a palanquin
(n) strategy of holing oneself up in a castle (house, building)
(n) means of cajolement (trickery)
(n) (1) a shut-in
a stay-at-home
people who withdraw from society (e.g. retire to the country)
(2) social withdrawal
shunning other people
(v5r,vi) to stay indoors
to be confined indoors
(v1,vt) to talk down
to argue down
(n) special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito
(v1,vt) to rain (or snow), keeping people indoors
(v1) to shut in
to confine
to surround
(exp) wholeheartedly
with all one's heart
(v1,vi) (1) to hang low over (e.g. clouds)
(2) (arch) to seclude oneself (behind screens, curtain, etc.)
(n) complete mastery of or over
at one's beck and call
(v1,vi) to hang over
to shroud
to enshroud
to envelop
to screen
(n) thick voice
(n) (uk) baby hatch for unwanted newborns at Jikei Hospital, Kumamoto (lit: stork's cradle)
(exp) to shut oneself up in one's study
(adj-f) warmhearted
sympathetic
(exp,v5m) (obsc) like trying to scoop water with a basket (i.e. impossible, a waste of time & energy)
(exp) to coop hens
(n) complete mastery of or over
at one's beck and call
(n) eyes fraught with hatred
(n) (uk) baby hatch for unwanted newborns at Jikei Hospital, Kumamoto (lit: stork's cradle)
(exp) from the cradle to the grave
(exp) to be heavy with tobacco smoke