poisonous; toxic; noxious; malicious; spiteful; hurtful
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness
cannibalism (in animals); feeding on each other; mutually harmful competition; internecine struggle; dog-eat-dog competition
creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention
to pick up; to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take away; to confiscate; to deliver (a baby)
general term; generic name
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
to fire from a job; to dismiss; to discharge; to behead
drawing up (e.g. legal document, contract, will, etc.); preparing; writing; framing; making; producing
way (of doing things); method; style; school (e.g. of poetry)
(arch.) charmed and cursed; something that bewilders; something that leads one astray; the work of demons
way (of doing); manner; method; means
(the) mainstream; main course (of a river); main stream
poisoning; kill by poison
by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing
ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
spell; curse; incantation
Onmyōdō; way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements
cutting edge; leading edge; forefront; tip; end
seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand
later; afterwards; future; after one's death; (arch.) descendant
technique; art; skill; move
killing someone with a magical curse
forbidden to take out (e.g. of a book in a library)
chief; main; principal; important
pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.
wide sense (e.g. of a word); broad sense
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
outline; survey; compendium
to manipulate puppets; to pull wires
barrier; protective wall; obstacle; hindrance; imaginary shield that gives one invincibility or immunity
to be commonly referred to as; as people say; as the saying is; they say
cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2am and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death
scattering; diffusion; spread (e.g. signal across the spectrum)
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
ancestral; hereditary; imported; transmitted; handed down
multiracial nation; multiethnic country