artifice; wiles; trickery; art of a courtesan (esp. for seducing or deceiving customers); coquetry
numbness; going to sleep (of a limb); pins and needles
there is no need to; it is fine if you don't; unnecessary; does not match; out of reach of
discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment
to make up one's mind (to do something); to resolve firmly (to do something)
equality (esp. of status); equal footing; equal terms
to make frantic efforts; to make an all-out effort; to try desperately
vivid; bright; brilliant; skillful; skilful; adroit
some; several; many; how many; how much; very
nothing but; except; no more than
honorable death; death without surrender; honorable defeat; trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love
front and rear; before and after; order; sequence; consequences; context
to give one's life; to lay down one's life
to snap; to break (under pressure)
succession; continuation; series; sequence
one's own strength and skill alone (without money, connections, etc); nothing to rely on but oneself; (being) self-made
to blow out; to spout out
to step aside; to move (out of the way); to make way; to resign; to retire; to quit
irregular; atypical; anomalous; anomalistic; abnormal
cutting through cloth; sound of cutting through cloth; shrieking sound; woman's scream; cry of the lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
(fighting) spirit; motivation; shout (for getting in the right mood to deal with something, etc.); cheer; kiai; short shout when performing an attacking move
wick; marrow; core; heart; pistil (of a flower); stamen
(using) one's whole body; (putting in) all one's efforts; (exerting) all one's energies
dripping; trickling; drop by drop; in drops
willpower; energy; vitality
return; reversion; comeback; carriage return
one gō (approx. 180 ml); one gō (approx. 0.33 square meters); one-tenth of the distance from the base to the summit of a mountain
to underrate; to belittle; to look down on; to despise
concreteness; feasibility
to chip; to nick; to break; to lack
question; inquiry; enquiry
laughing while crying; smiling through one's tears; (alternately) laughing and crying; tears and laughter; joy and sorrow
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to
to do over again; to redo; to start over; to remake; to resume; to recommence
to forget something ever existed; to pretend something didn't happen; to put something behind one; to forgive (something)
many times over; often; repeatedly; time after time
bygones; the past; past event