master; teacher; stable master
influence; effect; impact
form; situation; condition
resemblance; similarity; likeness; analogy
device; equipment; machinery; apparatus
bridge (road, railway, ship, etc.); (contact) bridge; Seven Bridge (Japanese rummy game); bridge; bridge (of a pair of glasses); bridge (in wrestling); bridge (circuit)
blindness; blind (e.g. love, faith); reckless
commander; commanding officer; CO
final; eventual; ultimate
someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour
process; procedure; sequence; protocol; instruction
(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy
to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
invisibility (through magic)
memory; sense; experience
to think up; to think out; to knit (a pattern into a sweater, etc.); to start knitting
tengu; red-faced and long-nosed goblin said to reside deep in the mountains; bragging; conceit; braggart
art; technique; means; way; stratagem; artifice
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root
art of war; strategy; tactics
to steal; to plagiarize; to steal (a technique, idea, etc.); to do stealthily; to do during scant time; to steal a base
legend; folklore; tradition
yin-yang diviner; sorcerer; exorcist; medium
old manners; old style; old school (of art)
founder; originator; pioneer
general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different
statue; picture; picture revealing character
acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition; cognition
another; one more; even more; (not) quite; (not) very
from ancient times; from old times; from time immemorial
Kurama tengu; tengu of Kyoto's Mount Kurama, said to have taught the art of war to Minamoto no Yoshitsune
viewing and treating as one; regarding as the same; equating one thing with another; identification
pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.
identical; same; one and the same; fair; equal treatment; without discrimination
axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
horse; horse racing; promoted bishop; knight (court card in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta)
(giving) instruction (esp. in the secrets of an art, discipline, etc.); initiation; teaching; passing on; imparting