carving with a knife; handiwork done with a knife; cheap trick; simple trickery; petty stratagem
the front; honesty; uprightness; decency; normality
muteness; speech impairment; mute; deaf-mute
six (long cylindrical things)
divining sticks; counting; calculation
twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
New Year's Day; New Year's morning; morning of New Year's Day
false evidence; perjury; false testimony
health; healthy; sound; fit
to pocket an insult; to choke back one's tears
innocence; guiltlessness; absence of the fact; insubstantiality; (arch.) insincerity; (arch.) dishonesty
ferocious; brutal; atrocious; savage; barbarous
complete change; about-face
to run counter to; to go against; to disobey; to infringe
transformation; abnormality; sexual perversion; pervert; metamorphosis; transformation
to lean (to one side); to incline; to be unbalanced (e.g. diet); to be unduly weighted towards; to be partial; to be biased
to live; to get along; to spend (time)
to visit; to call on; to arrive (season, time, situation, etc.); to come; (arch.) to make a sound; (arch.) to send a letter
sparse; distant (of a relationship); estranged; alienated
foe; enemy; resentment; enmity; harm; injury
ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream
Yama, judge of the afterlife
something; what; why; how
lonely, spouseless bedroom; bedroom of a neglected spouse
protection; defense; providence; amulet; charm
unfeeling; heartless; cold-hearted; cruel
unhappiness; sad fate; misfortune
last ray of hope; only hope
to cut apart (cloth, paper, etc.); to sever (ties); to break off (relationship); to cut off (enemy's retreat); to block (road, etc.)
having done ... by mistake; having messed up ...
to abandon; to give up on; to desert
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
being isolated and helpless; fighting (struggling) alone and unassisted
horizon; distant land; skyline; heavenly shores; remote region