irritating; aggravating; upsetting
hall of offerings (at a shrine)
front shrine; hall of worship
Shinto shrine precincts; holy precincts; sanctuary
to creep in; to steal in; to sneak in
trusting to chance; having a go at something
small theatre; kabuki performed in a small theatre; little performance; short acted scene; act
sit down; sit up; Sit! (to a dog)
major incident; major happening; big scandal
accident; disaster; incident; uprising; emergency
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man
left (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); the following
lieutenant general; vice-admiral
participation in government; state councillor (in the ritsuryo system); state councilor; vice-minister (early Meiji period); Cabinet Councillor (1937-1943); Cabinet Councilor
(arch.) slave; retainer; servant; captive; varlet; I
(courteous) invitation; call
audience (with a person of high standing); eye-level
pardon; forgiveness; exemption; permission
certificate; certified document; (the) thumbs up; seal of approval; paper with signature of the shogun or lord
just cause; good reason; pretext; duty (to one's country, sovereign, etc.)
to talk; to carry meaning
state-of-the-art; cutting-edge
decline; degeneration; decay; waning; ebbing
closely-guarded secret; top secret
capture (of enemy weapons, supplies, etc.); seizure; plunder
copy; reproduction; replica; facsimile
whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle; start (e.g. of a movement); beginning; dawn
to kill one's enemy (opponent)
imagination; supposition; virtual; potential (enemy)
to beat time; to mark time
manure; night soil; dung; fertiliser; fertilizer
struggle (for); scramble; contest
randori (freestyle judo training)
ugly; unattractive; unsightly; unseemly