mental preparedness; being braced for; being steeled for
strange; weird; odd; strange thing; strange person
up and down, left and right; top and bottom, left and right
all over; all over the place; everywhere
ball; ball (pitch delivered outside the strike zone); board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)
dynamic visual acuity; DVA; kinetic vision
root; joint; base; crotch
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation
busy; hectic; frantic; restless; hurried; fidgety
flapping of wings; wingbeat; flap; flutter
long time; long interval; for quite some time
lonely (e.g. person, feeling); lonesome; desolate; deserted; sad; lacking
to tickle; to tickle (one's curiosity, vanity, etc.); to arouse; to make (someone) laugh; to amuse
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
to force open; to push open
closely (packed, lined up, etc.); tightly; densely; (work) sufficiently
to all come in (e.g. teeth); to all come out (e.g. seedlings, flowers)
ticklish; embarrassed; awkward; ill at ease (esp. when receiving public praise)
solid; robust; tight; taut; shrewd; calculating
to support each other; to support one another
one's superior's anger; imperial wrath
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryō system)
historical event; ancient event; tradition; folklore; legend
origin; (arch.) appearance of an auspicious sign that one will receive a divine mandate to becoming emperor; (arch.) birth of an emperor or his ancestors
to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one; to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor; (lit.) to touch the scale on a dragon's throat
certainly; surely; definitely
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known
idiom derived from historical events or classical literature of China
the way in which something came about; origin; structure; organization; the way something is constructed
having no way of knowing; being completely ignorant of
vigorously; with great force; energetically; enthusiastically; with spirit
heaven and earth; the universe; land; world; top and bottom; gods of heaven and earth
(turning) round and round; in circles; wrapping around; winding around
echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit
to each his own; people differ; different people (have different likes)
depending on the situation; should time and circumstances permit
to stagnate; to be delayed; to be left undone; to be overdue (of a payment); to fall into arrears; to be outstanding
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
to hold out (e.g. against an attack); to hang on; to withstand; to endure; to last
hour; o'clock; (specified) time; when ...; during ...
untrodden (region, field of study, etc.); unprecedented (discovery, achievement, etc.)