improved version; revised edition; refinement
lessons learned in war; martial wisdom
to (relax and) stretch one's legs out; to go for a further walk
section (e.g. in a newspaper); column; field (in a form, web page, etc.); blank; handrail; railing
court noble; nobility; kuge; Imperial Court
fence; bulwark; guarding wall
son-in-law taken (adopted) into family
lawfulness; propriety; reasonableness; appropriateness; legality; legitimacy
to get hold of; to take possession of; to seize
behind with everything; too late; reactive
to complete decisively; to do to completion
bugling (sound); honking; grumbling; complaining; car; automobile
period; time; opportunity; chance; age; term (e.g. in office); session (e.g. of parliament)
moving; relocation; change of address; transfer (of deeds, property, etc.); demise
old person (knowledgeable about events of the distant past); elderly person; elder
a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family
three noble families (Kan'in, Kazan'in and Nakanoin or Koga); three branches of the Tokugawa family (Owari, Kii and Mito)
hateful; detestable; loathsome
to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)
tiger cub; one's treasure; precious savings
deed; act; work; performance
literary style; form of (written) language (e.g. classical, modern)
to have a showdown; to settle (e.g. a dispute)
front entrance; front door
old times; antiquity; former years
here and there; this way and that way; everywhere; all over
coercion; extortion; compulsion; force
father-in-law; foster father; stepfather
wobbling; tottering; wavering (e.g. over a decision); dithering; boiling up; dizzily
within expectations; as expected; within the scope of hypothesis or assumption
temple kitchen; monastery kitchen; quarters of a head priest (and his family)
grazing; skimming; almost touching; barely; just; narrowly
wooden frame; wooden crate; wooden pallet
dense (e.g. fog, dust, etc.); thick; vague (as in being unable to think clearly); dim
creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring
lower tier; lower step; lower column; low position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)
(large) body; (bulky) frame; (hulking) figure
fresh troops; fresh players; newcomer; new employee; new method; new way
devotion to one's family; fondness for one's family
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front