work; business; company; study
to be dying; to be about to die; to be close to death
one's position; one's face; one's honour; one's reputation
to go down in history; to be recorded in the history books
assembling (in full force); muster; lining up; gathering; getting together
Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period
Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568); Sengoku period; Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE); era of vicious competition
decision; settlement; confirmation; establishment
to revel in trouble and discord; to be bent on making trouble; to like starting fights
iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards
to stake; to risk; to bet; to wager
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
peril; danger; hazard; distress
sound of the wind; voice of the wind
to slay; to cut down (a foe)
skewering; skewered food; piercing (and killing; with a spear, etc.); impaling; running through
zanbatō; long-handled Chinese anti-cavalry sword
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
just as (each) one likes; as (each) one pleases; as (each) one prefers; (each) in one's own way
sword skills; swordsmanship
sword strike; sword slash
concussion (of the brain)
milli-; 10^-3; millimetre; millimeter
shade; shadow; behind (something); other side; the background; behind the scenes
longer type of wakizashi (short sword); gambler
to slip out (e.g. from one's fingers); to cleanly forget
long-armed; kleptomania(c)
thoughtless; reckless; rash; excessive; unreasonable; immoderate
generosity; magnanimity; tolerance; length and capacity; measures
time appointed for meeting (assembling); time one is supposed to meet
self-centered; self-centred; selfish
the Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells); hell of uninterrupted suffering
short sword; knife; dagger; dirk; tantō
grave marker; gravestone; headstone; writing on a headstone (name, date of death, etc.)
feeling of loneliness; feeling of desolation
(cross) section (e.g. in a drawing); transverse section; cutting plane
clanging (of a hammer); clanking; chinking
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
smith; blacksmith; small crowbar for extracting nails; cat's paw