a cloth or cord used to tie back the sleeves of a robe, primarily used by women to get the sleeves out of the way for work such as shrine ceremonies or kitchen work

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

triumphant, proud / skilled

strong point / triumph / regular customer

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

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

regular costumer; patron