status; position; method; way; rule; regulation
to hum (a tune); to sing to oneself; to croon
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting (a difficulty); overcoming; exceeding; passing
grief; sorrow; extreme sadness; heartbreak
to be taken aback; to be astonished; to be dumbfounded
to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum
to make a sound; to give off a sound; to hear a sound
bowstring; string (of a shamisen, etc.); stringed instrument; chord; hypotenuse
certainly; surely; undoubtedly; just; precisely; exactly
firing (esp. a rocket or missile); launching; shooting; ejaculation
long arrow; person who can fire a long arrow
to sharpen; to grind; to whet; to hone; to make keen
to bend; to warp; to lose heart
branch; bough; limb; twig; sprig; spray
agonizing cries; pandemonium; two of Buddhism's hells
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
sharp pain; acute pain; intense pain
one's last moments; hour of death; death throes; agonies of death
skewering; skewered food; piercing (and killing; with a spear, etc.); impaling; running through
among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)
otherwise; or else; if not
both; many; various; together
round-up (e.g. of criminals); wholesale arrest; catching the whole herd with one throw
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
to run away; to flee; to make off; to start to run away
end; final; end of life; death; never; not at all
ending; quitting; closing; ending before one had time to do something one wanted or intended to
to spring at; to leap upon
adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing
honour; honor; glory; renown
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
heresy; nonconformism; heathenism; paganism
mission; errand; task; duty; obligation
but; however; even though; even if
to want; to seek; to request
after a short while; not long after; soon; before long; shortly thereafter
cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible