wanting (to have); desiring; wishing for; I want (you, them, etc.) to (do)
personal; individual; private
culling; putting down; slaughtering; killing
truancy; school non-attendance
shelter; refuge; protected place
emerging market; emerging nation; emergent nation; developing country; developing nation
person who has committed suicide
to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
dispute; conflict; trouble; unrest; strife
lofty; sublime; noble; the sublime (aesthetics)
conclusion (of an argument, discussion, study, etc.); conclusion
sublimation; sublimation (of an impulse); sublimation (i.e. transforming into a purer or nobler form)
to come true (of a dream, wish, etc.); to be realized; to be fulfilled; to be granted; to be answered (of a prayer); to be requited (of love)
to follow in order; to go through step-by-step
direction; orientation; bearing; course (e.g. of action)
male coming-of-age-ceremony; shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)
anciently; formerly; old times; a long time ago
ceremony; matter; affair; with regard to; as for
something like ...; something called ...
at that time; in those days
samurai family; samurai class; samurai stock; samurai; warrior
to stand (something) up; to put upright; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to let out; to raise (a cloud of dust, smoke, etc.)
gods and Buddha; Shinto and Buddhism
dedication; offering; presentation; oblation
to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit
police officer; policeman; policewoman
self-interest; selfish desire; greed
to run; to run (of a vehicle); to drive; to rush (to); to dash; to retreat; to flee
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
the samurai glories in honourable poverty; keep a stiff upper lip!
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
historical play; period drama
vice; immorality; corruption
merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper
bribe; sweetener; douceur
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
family; relatives; dependents; household
all members; all hands; everyone; everybody; whole crew