to check through; to thoroughly investigate
authority; power; influence
to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply
valid; proper; right; appropriate; reasonable
support; backing; endorsement; support; holding up; propping
point of compromise; common ground
thereabouts; vicinity; that area; that situation; those circumstances
with a feeling of relief; with a sigh of relief; deeply (sigh)
to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except
to look up to (a person) as one's preceptor
to dismiss (from a position); to exempt; to excuse from; to forgive
closing of a gate; (Edo-period) house confinement
to repent; to be penitent
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
fingers; fingertips; underling; stooge; tool
congeniality; satisfaction; gratification
passing away; death; dying words; death poem (poem written during one's final moments)
hail (esp. hailballs 5 mm or greater)
one's post; one's position; one's station; one's round; one's beat; one's route
topic; subject; rumor; talk; tale; story
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
sword (esp. a large, double-edged one); blade; bayonet; swordsmanship; stinger; ovipositor
Buddha; Shakyamuni; Buddhist image; figure of Buddha; the dead; dead person
together with; same; both; all; including ...
to be inclined to do; to be willing to do
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
changing clothes; change of clothes
stillness; quiet; peacefulness
to seize; to capture; to arrest; to hold down; to subdue
to approach (one's) death; to face (one's) death
incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
autopsy; inquest; investigation of death
this (very thing); this precisely
competition; rivalry; something worth doing
the end; closing; being done for; that's it; that's enough; that's all
to settle peacefully; to work out peacefully; to come to an amicable solution; to become reconciled
asleep (in bed); sick in bed