craftsman; artisan; workman; carpenter
to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar
settlement (financial); squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
often; frequently; lightly (of a movement); easily; simply
to use X as a selling point
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)
descendant; posterity; offspring
selection (esp. from many people for an important job position); exceptional promotion
the place for; the time for; the level of
suffixed to words indicating a class of people to create a plural (esp. in impolite contexts)
crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)
lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship
capable person; talented person; human resources; personnel
to dream (i.e. while asleep); to have a dream; to dream (of the future); to have a fleeting experience
monetary; financial; pecuniary
to drag into; to pull into; to lure inside; to win over; to entice into
to be profitable; to yield a profit
old; former; the old; old things; old times; bygone days
Mecca; Makkah; mecca; centre for some field or activity (center)
holiness; sacredness; sanctity; dignity
large statue of Buddha (trad. at least 4.8m high)
to gain a reputation; to make oneself famous
long (time that has passed); old (story)
mysterious disappearance; being spirited away
minor; small; minor (key, scale, etc.); the minor leagues (US baseball)
aloof; morose; stuck-up; smelling strongly of something; having a pungent smell
close-cropped head; bald hill
large build; large pattern
sales promotion; hard selling
celebrity; personality; prominent figure
chief; main; principal; important
side job; sideline; subsidiary business
feeling like friends; the feeling of friendship
straight to the point; point-blank; frank; direct
private; informal; among one's people (group, friends)
invulnerability; immortality; insensibility to pain