preservation; retainment; keeping
practitioner (of medicine, sorcery, fortune telling, etc.)
trivial; not amounting to much
so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense
performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
overhead; above one's head; high in the sky
to raise (a sword, fist, etc.); to lift; to throw up; to fling up; to swing up
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
blade; sword; forged blade; wavy pattern on forged blades; sharpness; unhulled rice
visual hallucination; vision
line (of text); row; carya (austerities); samskara (formations); semi-cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); running style
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
phantom; vision; something fleeting; short-lived dream; fabled item; mythical thing
as expected; as predicted
to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up; to swallow up (in a crowd, whirlpool, the darkness, etc.); to suck in
to break (into pieces); to smash; to shatter (someone's hopes, confidence, etc.); to crush; to simplify; to make easy to understand
even ... (e.g. "even a genius")
swaying (only once, in a large, slow motion); relaxedly
to stagger; to stumble; to waver; to be in two minds; to have an affair (with); to fall (for someone)
to drop; to let fall; to omit
pain; ache; soreness; damage; injury; wear
appearance; expression; manifestation
cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible
to be crushed; to be squashed; to go bankrupt; to go under; to be ruined (of a plan); to be cancelled; to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.)
hatred; abhorrence; loathing; detestation
fighting spirit; (will to) fight
to hold aloft (e.g. a sword); to brandish
as one wishes; as one wants; to one's satisfaction
to scream; to whine; to grumble; to complain
shukuchi (rapid movement techniques); shortening distances
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); shouting repeatedly; pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; pile of 3 cards of the same value in oicho-kabu
slow motion (video); moving slowly; moving leisurely
wearing armour (armor); counter for suits of armour
to mark the end; to spell the end
breast; chest; pit of the stomach; solar plexus; epigastrium
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root
to draw (something) toward one; to pull toward one; to pull closer; to attract; to draw; to entice
unrealistic; impractical; infeasible; unreal
to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
dangerous weapon; lethal weapon; deadly weapon; murder weapon
to decrease; to be reduced; to reduce; to lessen; to subtract; to deduct
perception; sensation; awareness