a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family
to take a breather; to take a rest; to catch one's breath; to take a breath
to keep one's feet on the ground; to be down to earth
to push back; to press back; to force back; to (refuse and) return (something); to give back
naked sword; drawn sword; shellfish removed from the shell
art of war; strategy; tactics
laughable; ridiculous; pitiful; contemptible; absurd; nonsensical
swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man
simple and honest; unsophisticated; simpleminded; naive; unspoiled
disabling; invalidation; nullification; vitiation
excessive bleeding; massive bleeding
to mishear; to hear wrongly; to misunderstand
blinding someone's eyes (to make an escape); smoke screen; distraction; magic (trick); sleight of hand
to join; to be put together; to combine; to unite; to fit; to close (e.g. of a wound)
bold; audacious; impudent; unashamed; unabashed
to get involved (with); to begin (with); to have a hand (in)
to arrange beforehand to tell the same story; to get the stories straight
slight movement; slight tremor; quiver
to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request)
jumping to a hasty conclusion; premature judgement
to tire of; to lose interest in; to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
haori and hakama (Japanese male formal attire)
burial clothes; clothes worn to commit suicide
guard (on a sword); brim (of a hat); visor; brim (of a pot); flange
with an extreme cold (i.e. temperature); lonelily; lonesomely; (acting) coldly (toward someone)
to freeze (of one's body); to be frozen; to become numb (with cold); to be chilled
sweetly smiling; like the smiling of a beauty; gracious
handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler
how much; how many; however
half-way up a slope or stairway; landing; center of three (horizontal) columns; middle guard position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)
stillness; rest; being stationary; standing still; coming to a standstill
straining; tensing up; trying too hard; overexertion; bravado; showing off
shaku (unit of distance approximately equal to 30.3 cm); rule; measure; length
what sort of; what kind of; what way