alcove

floorboard, wood flooring

alcove board, toko slab, floorboards at the base of a tokonoma

to make [something] / to cook / to write a literary work / to grow, to raise / to cultivate ability, to train / to draw up, form, establish / to make an acquaintance

作る: make - make a small thing, grow vegetables / 創る: create - originate, bring into existence / 造る: build, construct - build a house, or a building

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

special

特別: specially, particularly, exceptionally

(idiomatic, especially a child) to be on the verge of tears

use one thing for many purposes / work someone hard