fingertip; finger; toe tip; toe
having wounds all over one's body; being wounded all over; receiving a drubbing; being subjected to a barrage of criticism
sword skills; swordsmanship
kariginu; informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards; patterned kariginu (Edo period)
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
reasonably; fairly; hurriedly; in a rush; approximately; about
man with a gentle nature; man of delicate features; man of slender build; effeminate man; feeble man
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
to infer; to figure out; to get an idea of; to tell; to imagine; to guess
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself (as); to change (into); to transform; to change radically (for the better)
to cut out; to clip from; to extract
yin-yang diviner; sorcerer; exorcist; medium
floating; drifting; suspension; (arch.) wandering (about)
birds and wild animals; wildlife
fields (of rice and other crops)
to eat up and spoil (e.g. crops); to eat away; to eat a bit of everything; to encroach upon; to take over
to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship
to lament; to grieve; to regret; to deplore
disapproval; disagreement; no; the noes; not ...; dis-
oneself (itself, etc.); I; me; you; by oneself (itself, etc.); interjection expressing anger or chagrin
(looking) blankly; vacantly; dazedly; (staring) in puzzlement; with a look of amazement
human kindness; human weakness
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
aim; goal; purpose; look; eyes; expression of eyes
to cling to; to depend on; to embrace; to hug
defeat; loss; reverse; setback
to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric
fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes); fox (i.e. a sly person); soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu; light brown; golden brown
large tengu; powerful tengu; big braggart; blowhard
empty air; sky; shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon); emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness
death; the late; the deceased
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing ...)
gracious (defeat, apology, etc.); graceful; upright; righteous; (arch.) unspoiled (scenery, etc.); (arch.) pure
seal; to seal (e.g. a letter); to affix a seal; to seal up
therefore; and so; for that reason; accordingly; consequently; hence
presence (e.g. of an observer); observation; trading session (at an exchange); rising from a crouch to charge; initial charge