(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad
unexpectedly; by chance; by accident
good luck; fortune; happiness; harvest; yield
good offices; auspices; sponsorship; village official (during the Edo period)
to plan; to attempt; to plot; to conspire; to aim for; to strive for
talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; talk show; toque
combat readiness; battle readiness; fighting trim
size; dimension; large and small (sizes); various sizes; daishō (matched pair of long and short swords); large and small drums; long months and short months
setting on fire; setting afire
to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder
appalling; awful; horrible; horrifying; ghastly
to reach an extreme; to reach a limit; extremely; to be stuck; to be in a dilemma; to be decided
figure; body shape; build; somatotype; biotype; habitus
looking for something; searching for something; object being sought
soft; tender; soft (colour, light, etc.); subdued; informal; light
to be in the firing line; to bear the brunt of (an attack, criticism, etc.); to face (e.g. questioning)
heaps of corpses all around
loser; defeated person; the defeated
this world; this life; the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.); this corrupt world; present world
pile; pool; gathering spot; waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring; liquid runoff from miso preparation; tamari
to work without sleep or rest
to intensify; to be excited; to fly into a rage; to dash against; to encourage
protegee; someone who one considers as a younger sister
interval; break; pause; gap (between objects); interval; opening
assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
daily; everyday; days (e.g. of one's youth); every day; day after day
this world; the present world
phase (e.g. wave, electricity, moon); topology; register
proclamation; official notice; touch; contact
to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out
making doubly sure; points scored for good measure; insurance run (in baseball)
careful; cautious; wary; watchful; vigilant; prudent
regarding as dangerous; identifying as a threat
in any case; at any rate; anyhow; anyway; as you know; for you see
hard education; hard training; Spartan education
I think (something) won't (something); probably (something) isn't (something)
to accompany; to follow; to keep up with
to narrow; to reduce; to contract
decline; ebb; failure; decay; decrease; loss
no; nay; disagreement; objection; disapproval
colour; color; hue; tints
composite image of a celebrity (esp. an idol's face with the body of a nude model); celebrity fake
joint; seam; joining point