to play with; to joke; to use (esp. trick, sophistry, etc.); to deride; to scoff at; to make fun of
fireworks display; display of fireworks
making some money; earning
night stall; night shop; night fair
street vendor; stallholder; stallkeeper
to ill-treat; to bully; to torment; to be tough on (e.g. one's body); to treat harshly
effeminate; unmanly; cowardly; sissy
to hack; to chop (firewood, meat, etc.); to chop off (e.g. a head)
iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards
sword skills; swordsmanship
one gō (approx. 180 ml); one gō (approx. 0.33 square meters); one-tenth of the distance from the base to the summit of a mountain
mixture; blending; complication; crossing; intersecting; interlacing
Japanese clothing; being dressed in a kimono; Japanese-style bookbinding
master swordsman; skilled fencer
Western clothing; Western binding
sorcerer; genie; human with supernatural powers
naked sword; drawn sword; shellfish removed from the shell
length of a blade; walking barefoot on the edge of a sword blade (acrobatic stunt)
shaku (unit of distance approximately equal to 30.3 cm); rule; measure; length
sun (approx. 3 cm); length; measurement; shortness; tininess
a little less than; a little under; weakness; the weak; -lower (seismic intensity)
pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously
structure; construction; posture (e.g. in martial arts); pose; readiness; determination
standing comparison with; comparing favorably with; by no means inferior to; equal to
personality; style; appearance
holding one's sword pointing towards the opponent's eyes (kendo stance); warm, welcoming eyes
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
ground; land; the region in question; the local area; skin; texture; fabric
slightly; lightly; thinly; faintly; dimly
blade; sword; forged blade; wavy pattern on forged blades; sharpness; unhulled rice
peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
gods and men; godlike person; person as powerful as a god; (arch.) low-ranking Shinto priest
how ...!; what ...!; what?; what's that?
to rewrite; to overwrite; to renew; to transfer
Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period
middle period; medium-term
running away; escaping on foot
swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man
the whole world; the whole country; society; the public; supremacy over a nation; government of a country; having one's own way
presumptuous; impertinent; impudent; ridiculous; laughable; absurd