to fight with swords; to cross swords
judgement; judgment; decision; ruling; finding; adjudication
ridge on the side of a sword blade; ridged pattern
to sharpen; to hone; to wash (rice); to scour; to polish
polish; grinding; sharpening
grandfather; male senior-citizen; old man
hokora; small wayside shrine
northernmost tip (point, extremity, etc.)
subordinate shrine; professional entertainer
to go out; to go around; to walk about; to roam
nobleman; dignitary; feudal lord (of the Edo period); daimyo; man brought up away from the world; arrogant man with little knowledge of the ways of the world
neighbors; neighbours; neighborhood; neighbourhood
territory; dominion; grounds (e.g. school)
criminal; lawbreaker; wrongdoer; offender
to collapse on the street (from illness, hunger, exhaustion, etc.); to fall down dead on the road
(feeling a chill or shiver) suddenly; (feeling) chilly; chillily; with a sudden sense of dread (or fear, etc.); (being) suddenly (afraid, frightened, etc.); suddenly (breaking out in a cold sweat)
sharpness; cutting ability; quickness (of wit); incisiveness; peppiness (of a ball)
to fire from a job; to dismiss; to discharge; to behead
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
child of the times; modern kid; kids of today; with-it youngster
real; realistic; serious; non-joking; realtime blog; real world (cf. online games or social networking services)
actual article or goods; spots (stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, etc.); (in) kind (income, benefit, rent, taxes, investment, etc.)
to hew; to chop up; to mangle; to mince
entrails; giblets; tripe; offal
to spill over and fall; to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.)
unconcernedly; nonchalantly; indifferently; blankly; vacantly; absentmindedly
dirt mound; dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
chilly; rather cold; somewhat cold
being somewhat excited (agitated)
among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
grotesque; bizarre; weird; grotesque (style)
technical; technological; practical
to soften; to moderate; to relieve
to be sacked; to be dismissed