tea utensils; container for powdered green tea (tea ceremony)
kakishibu; astringent persimmon juice used as a dye or to to treat wood, paper, etc.
10,000,000,000; ten billion
greed; cruelty; callous; (arch.) insistent; (arch.) insistence
kind offices; services; through the good offices of; intercession; mediation
to cause casualties; to result in deaths
outlining (e.g. font); hollowing out; getting rid of the middleman; dealing directly; skinning the cat (gymnastics)
subcontract; subcontractor (person or company)
exploitation; bleeding dry; squeezing dry; milking (e.g. a cow's teat); extracting (a liquid) through squeezing
all companies; each company
to send (something unsolicited); to send without the receiver's request
adhesive tape; sticky tape
notable; important; chief; valuable; conspicuous; outstanding
multifunction; multipurpose
change; modification; alteration; revision; amendment
copy; photocopy; blurb on a book jacket; catch copy
to chastise; to punish; to discipline
slapping; splashing; splatting; banging shut; flat (refusal, denial, etc.)
large crowd; mass of people
police officer; policeman; constable
people (of a country); nation; citizen; national
flaw; defect; problem; inconvenient
delightful; joyous; joyful; happy; desirable; welcome
even so; anyhow; at any rate
to sit; to squat; to be implicated
marriage proposal; marriage talks
court noble; nobility; Imperial Court
eternity; permanence; perpetuity; Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3)
matter of the highest priority; top priority; first priority
to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate