to be hot on a person's heels
stance; attitude; standpoint; stance; posture
to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up
final adjustment; final coordination
supreme command; direction over all
chic; smart; understanding; considerate; familiar with worldly pleasures (esp. sexual relations, geisha districts and red-light districts)
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
trembling with excitement
to be awarded (e.g. a prize); to be given an award; to be gifted or endowed (e.g. with a talent); to be blessed (e.g. with a child); to be initiated (e.g. into a secret)
one army; whole army; first string players; the cool kids; the popular kids
twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
(any) particular; special; material; perceptible; noticeable
to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
to lose focus; to let one's mind wander; to relax one's attention
outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo; outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group
to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to let live; to keep alive; to revive; to resuscitate
division; section; compartment; block; plot; lot
continuation; succession; series
to lure someone; to entice someone
mixed (e.g. team, chorus)
drawn-out (protracted) war or contest
to glare; to dazzle; to glitter
medicine; agent; (chemical) substance; drug; dose
remarkably; noticeably; considerably; appreciably
dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
quick-witted; bright; rapid thinking
avarice; greed; covetousness; raga (desire)
highest institute of education
to envy; to be envious of; to be jealous of
to wrinkle up (one's eyebrows, one's nose); to furrow; to crimple
as (X, then Y); with; in accordance with; in proportion to
uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort; malaise; physical unease
to come out; to appear; to turn up; to emerge
starting up (e.g. business, computer)
weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection (e.g. natural selection)
comrade in arms; war buddy; fellow soldier
heaps of bodies and streams of blood; fierce battle