robot; (mere) puppet; pawn; figurehead
(arch.) office; (arch.) official; chief; head; (Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa) person (usually a woman) whose duty it is to officiate at religions ceremonies
drainage; draining; pumping out (water); displacement
being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; (lit.) throwing up (one's) hands
beauty or ugliness; personal appearance; looks
to choke up; to be speechless; to hold one's tongue
nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
genuine; authentic; true; real
real hair; one's own hair
salty sea breeze; salt wind
channel (e.g. between two land masses); strait
Heike family; Taira family; The Tale of the Heike; chanting of the Heike Monogatari
to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin
platform; podium; (ceremonial) mound; world (of haiku, art, etc.); (literary) circles; (arch.) mandala
to say by mistake; to make a slip of the tongue
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
military force; force of arms; strength of an army
scraps of seaweed; death at sea (metaphor)
capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light); location of the Imperial Palace
lack of virtue; immorality; vice; depravity; unworthiness
starting in advance; starting first; going first; starting (in team sports)
under the command (of); under the banner (of); influenced (by)
carrying voice; well-projected voice
you (people); gentlemen; ladies and gentlemen; my friends
judgment (of a crime); conviction; condemnation; beheading; decapitation
to hit; to beat; to shout at; to yell at
bitter smile; wry smile; forced smile; strained laugh
carved seal; engraved stamp; to engrave (a seal); to carve; to make an impression (with a seal)
lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end
barrier; gate; seki (in go); mutual life
landing; going ashore; disembarkation; making landfall (of a typhoon); striking land; hitting land
sharpshooting; shooting; sniping; setting a goal and carrying it out
defile; narrow path; bottleneck; impasse
military science; strategy; tactics
military history; military annals
Kanmon Straits (between Honshu and Kyushu)