meeting; assembly; association; conjunction
management; administration; operation; running (business); conducting
instruction (in martial arts, performance, etc.); teaching; coaching
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
to dominate; to prevail; to be superior to; to get ahead of; to get the upper hand
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
prominent; leading; foremost; distinguished
before one's own eyes; from under one's very nose; without doing anything; without resistance; helplessly; negligently
harsh (criticism, treatment, etc.); severe; hard; strict
he; she; that person; (arch.) you
mysterious disappearance; being spirited away
charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage
kidnapping; kidnaping; abduction; kidnapper; kidnaper; abductor
walking sideways; staggering; striding; being rampant; being widespread; being prevalent
to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize
to dispose of; to sell off
acquisition; obtaining; coming to hand
wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; (arch.) woman (esp. as a love interest)
wherein; therein; thereinto
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
imitation; fake; phony; pseudo-
to swallow (e.g. a story); to accept without questioning; to swallow (food) whole; to gobble up; to gulp down
head; brains; intelligence
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
to detain; to check; to restrain
to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
childbirth; (giving) birth; delivery; production (of goods)
to lure out of; to decoy out of; to drive to (tears, sleep, etc.); to evoke (sympathy, etc.); (arch.) to abduct; (arch.) to entice out of
finish; finishing; finishing touches
gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail
to seize; to capture; to arrest; to hold down; to subdue
to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on
load; baggage; cargo; burden; responsibility
one's own handwriting; autograph
investigation (e.g. by police or prosecutors); examination; inquiry; enquiry
warrant; summons; written order