older brother; elder brother; brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship); young man; buddy
to set adrift; to let loose; to cut loose
to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation
fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha); person of no worth; pisher; scrub
full stomach; filling one's stomach; eating one's fill; complete; total; full
penance; austerities; mortification; asceticism
to draw the conclusion that ...; to conclude
outrageous; monstrous; appalling; inordinate; overambitious
stairs; stairs at the front of a noh stage
incidence; injection; input; incident
top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes
posterity; future generations
something worthy of comparison; something being compared
hailing each other; acting in concert; responding (to); agreement; concord
east, west, south and north
scope; valid range; coverage
to find somebody's weak spot; (lit.) to drill a hole
inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity
sensitive (person, heart, etc.); delicate (issue, problem, etc.); sensitive; fragile; delicate; delicate (fabric, shade, flavour, etc.)
minuscule amount; extremely small quantity
shooting from the hip; starting something without sufficient preparation; acting on a vague estimate (of the situation)
inevitable; necessary; foregone; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
to speak; to talk; to mediate; to act as a go-between; to put in a good word (for someone)
thunderous; rumbling; thunderously; rumblingly
to be parted from; to be separated
to come apart at the seams; to be ripped; to begin to open; to begin to bloom; to smile broadly; to break into a smile
although there are many of them
to be choked; to be stifled; to be smothered
friend and foe; enemies and allies; both sides
going backward; turning back; backtracking; retrogression; relapse; returning to a bad state
to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home
inverted; upside down; reversed; back to front; wrong way round
dressing in kimono without hakama (for a man); dressing casually
handling (e.g. knife, reins); control; use; dealing with (e.g. customers); management; disposal (esp. sale of goods)
Hizen (former province located in present-day Saga and Nagasaki prefectures, excluding Tsushima and Oki Islands)
hair pin; hairclip; hairgrip; bobby pin
strength of a brushstroke