last resort; desperate measure taken under the pressure of necessity
personality; character; individuality; personhood
good performance; good work; great success
principle; theory; fundamental truth
mediation; agency; carrying (germs, diseases, etc.); transmission; mediation (in Hegelianism)
to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet
to play a role; to serve a function; to play a part
to be injured; to sustain a wound
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
heretical religion; damaging religion; heresy
worship; adoration; admiration; cult
the heavens; the skies; heaven; deva realm; ascending to heaven; death
dendrolatry (worship of trees)
good and evil; purity and impurity; voiced and unvoiced consonants
to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with
to drink; to swallow; to smoke (tobacco); to swallow up; to engulf; to suppress (one's anger, bitter feelings, etc.); to keep down
one's cherished opinion; pet theory
heaven-sent child (in answer to a Shinto or Buddhist prayer); child (e.g. of an era); product
by extension; in turn; by the same token; in addition; as well; consequently
that is (to say); namely; precisely; exactly; if one does ..., then; in that case
attribute; property; attribute; alignment (in a role-playing game); element (of an enemy or attack); type (of dealt damage); (character) type
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
reason; logic; sense; natural way of things
reduction by half; halving
inside; interior; inner part
to melt; to liquefy; to dissolve (in a liquid); to bring into solution; to lose (money; through gambling, etc.); to squander
to be soaked in; to be flooded; to be submerged; to be immersed in (joy, memories, alcohol, etc.); to give oneself over to; to bask in
ecstasy; rapture; trance; senility
prey; catch; kill; spoils; trophy; loot
carnivore; carnivorous animal
play; playing; pleasure; amusement; play (in a mechanism, e.g. a steering wheel); slack
to lower the curtain (at the end of a play); to come to an end; to finish
god's majesty; god's authority; might of Heaven
yaksha (Buddhist guardian deities sometimes depicted as demonic warriors)
widely; extensively; far and wide; everywhere; all around; generally
dirty; filthy; disordered; messy; indecent (language, etc.); dirty
contact; touch; tactile object; uncleanliness
greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice
overhead; above one's head; high in the sky