(ceremonial) arrow used to drive off evil
easy delivery; easy childbirth; safe birth
prayer (for something); supplication
battle formation; lineup (e.g. for a game)
handsome man; actor in a love scene
crisis prevention; crisis avoidance
sleepiness; drowsiness; the sandman; Morpheus
captive; prisoner; victim (of love, etc.); slave (to one's lust, etc.)
incoherent; wandering; vague; rambling; whimsical
counter for colours; color; colour; (outward) appearance; look; (facial) expression; face
to get shabby; to go downhill; to go to seed; to go to the dogs
village; hamlet; settlement
(distant) howling; howl; backbiting; criticizing someone behind their back
being dotted about; being scattered; being interspersed
deterioration; becoming decrepit; becoming worn out
to crumble away; to collapse
marginal village; depopulated village where most inhabitants are senior citizens
humus; leaf mold; leaf mould; mulch
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
heroic; fierce; grand; sublime; magnificent
maintenance; servicing; putting in place; development; improvement
to shun; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing); to take (good) care of (esp. one's health)
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
famous product; special product; speciality; specialty
to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray
large landowner; major landowner; great landowner
one sweep (of the eye); sweeping view; unbroken view
to invade; to attack; to breach; to penetrate
shall ...; to assume; to suppose
old-fashioned; archaic; antique; antiquated
(not possible) on such short notice
magician; sorcerer; wizard; witch
supernatural phenomenon; paranormal phenomenon; anomalous phenomenon
to go by; to cross; to pass by; to flash across
ancestral; hereditary; handed down from generation to generation; for generations; from generation to generation
to be related; to be connected; to be joined together; to result in; to lead to; to bring about
roots; origin; one's roots; ancestry
to go upstream; to go up (a river); to go back (to the past or origin); to date back (to); to trace back (to)