ground; earth's surface; land; lot; plot
to let leak; to let out (e.g. light); to let out (a secret); to leak (information); to give utterance to (e.g. one's dissatisfaction); to vent; to wet one's pants
kernel; core; nucleus; center; centre
zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)
to call each other; to call out to one another
fragment; scrap; cut end; cut-off piece; chip; odds and ends
to strain (oneself); to bear down; to exert oneself; to put on a bold front; to make a show of strength; to swagger
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
agreement; stipulation; contract
Mimasaka (former province located in the northeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)
mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy
to give off (a smell, scent, aroma); to smell of; to perfume (a room, etc.); to hint at; to suggest; to insinuate
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
thought; thinking; opinion
extraordinary; exceptional; unprecedented; solecistic; non-standard; irregular
each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn
in a body; concentrated force; combined efforts
severe; intense; awe-inspiring; biting; bitter (cold); piercing
experienced; seasoned; veteran
after all; in the end; in short; atyanta (absoluteness)
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
restless; fidgety; in a hurry
sound of vibrating bowstring
to set on end (hair, fur, etc.); to make stand on end; to bristle; to ruffle (up); to raise (one's eyebrows)
lion; left-hand (stone) guardian lion-dog at a Shinto shrine
one leap (i.e. skipping intermediate stages); one jump; one step; jumping (with both feet together)
to jump up; to spring up; to move around; to bounce up and down; to pound (of one's heart, e.g. with excitement); to throb
to jump up; to leap up; to spring up
flash (of light); glint; swift strike; quick decisive move
to cut down; to prune; to reduce; to round down (e.g. fraction)
thin board; veneer; thin sheet of steel (3 mm or less); thin cloth; square wooden vase stand
yaksha (Buddhist guardian deities sometimes depicted as demonic warriors)
taking (something) seriously
appalling; awful; horrible; horrifying; ghastly
indescribable; having no way to express
nothing special; nothing significant; not a problem
lessening; diminishing; reducing
to get angry; to get mad; to be angular; to be square