Meanings

to push in

residence

tearoom attached to a theater (esp. in kabuki)

straight shooter

to doze off

living space

community performance (amateur theatricals, etc.)

striving for effect

single-person cell

job performed in one's home (e.g. tailor, seal engraver)

living in the mountains

to sit up straight

dual residence (in both the city and country)

to take up residence

dwelling

inhabiting a region (esp. in China)

small theatre

large-scale play

being in the middle

poets can stay in one place and still know all the famous sights