reliable; dependable; trustworthy; hopeful; promising
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
war; battle; match; game; competition
master; expert; Meijin (professional title); Meijin (highest title for male players in competitive karuta)
courage; ardour; high spirits
to smile back (at a person); to answer someone's smile
vivid (memory, description, etc.); fresh; graphic; fresh (blood, scar, etc.); still new; recent
self-defense; self-defence
trial product; prototype model
large part; greater part; people in general; general public; mostly; for the most part
to copy; to duplicate; to describe; to depict; to imitate; to model after
equally (well); as ... as; no less ... than ...; evenly matched; well-matched
to lessen; to decrease; to diminish
to become better; to improve
slight; little; insignificant
even; flat; level; calm; peaceful; uneventful
iron grill; iron grille; iron lattice; prison
to spell; to write; to compose; to bind (e.g. documents); to patch
word; term; language; speech
(point of) similarity; resemblance
impossible; incapable (of doing); incompetence; inability; impotence; having no solution (of an equation)
being well versed (in); being well acquainted (with); being familiar (with); (a boy's) first ejaculation; spermarche; semenarche
to advise strongly; to insist (on something)
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
to change color (of leaves in autumn); to turn red; to ripen (and change color); to become sexually aware; to reach puberty
bow (weapon); archery; bow (for a violin, etc.)
to nock (an arrow); to fix an arrow to the string
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles
to shoot (arrow, bolt, dart)
to forget completely; to leave behind
spirit of the dead (esp. of those killed in war); soul of a fallen soldier; person of outstanding talent; gifted person; genius
end; extremity; limit; result; outcome; upshot
to fall; to drop; to set (of the sun or moon); to sink; to decrease (of popularity, quality, speed, sales, etc.); to fall; to be inferior (to)
this world; this life; world of the living
gap; narrow space between things; valley; gorge; loophole (in a castle wall); arrow slit
Akasha (ether in traditional Hindu cosmology)