to be transmitted (handed down) from generation to generation
to be enchanted; to be charmed
accident; disaster; incident; uprising; emergency
balloon (esp. small, toy variety); airship; blimp
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
even ... (e.g. "even a genius")
short sword; knife; dagger; dirk; tantō
spewing; gushing; spouting; eruption; effusion
overflowing; flood; inundation; oversupply; plethora
spell (that restricts one's movements); binding spell
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
most difficult; next to impossible
iron hammer; (fig.) crushing blow
personal meeting (esp. used by females)
wicked tongue; abusive language
to burst into bud; to sprout; to have a crush; to be infatuated
appearance; expression; manifestation
to maintain; to continue to have
to be fragrant; to give out a smell; to be enveloped in a smell; to be radiant; to be attractive
O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy!
to fire from a job; to dismiss; to discharge; to behead
white (bleached) bone; skeleton
in a lively way; vividly; freshly; animatedly; actively; energetically
spirit of a dead person; ghost; departed soul
evil spirits of rivers and mountains
to chase about; to hang on; to drive hard
setsubun; last day of winter in the traditional Japanese calendar (usu. February 3 or 4), day of the bean scattering ceremony; last day of any season (according to the traditional Japanese calendar)
ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities; ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami
rakshasa; man-eating demon in Hinduism and Buddhism
uncleanness; impurity; disgrace; shame; uncleanliness from contact with death, pregnancy, menstruation, etc.