fireball; bolide; fireball
one's mind; one's heart; one's intention
going straight to the point; cutting it short; as it turns out
to escape from; to get out
shooting star; falling star; meteor; blaze (wide white stripe down the face of a horse)
subjectivity; subject (philosophical); ego; one's personal opinion; one's own idea
bomb blast; blast (from an explosion); shock wave
heated wire; infrared rays; heat rays
to make good one's escape; to get away; to outrun; to hold on (and win); to win narrowly
to swallow; to gulp down; to understand; to grasp; to engulf; to swallow up
fruitless effort; wasted effort; abortive scheme; futility
being amazed; being horrified; being taken aback
mystery; curiosity; strangeness; ghost; monster; apparition
foresight; foreknowledge; divination
eerie; hair-raising; exaggerated; ostentatious
common; ordinary; conventional; customary
there being no use in arguing (about it); not up for discussion
serving (of food); helping; chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce
twilight (traditionally regarded as a time when accidents and disasters are frequent)
end; finish; bound; limit; finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki); trump card
slight; little; insignificant
great distance; thousands of miles; (lit.) ten thousand ri
body of a snake; serpentine
scale (of fish, snake, etc.); serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))
mental; psychological; physical
grief; sorrow; extreme sadness; heartbreak
the whole body; the five styles of writing Chinese characters; the five parts of the body (head, two hands and two feet; or head, neck, chest, hands and feet)
completely; thoroughly; decisively; unsparingly; beyond recognition; until there's no untouched (undamaged) part
extremely sad (event, occurrence); great pity
hellfire; flames of hell; raging fire; large fire; fire that consumes an evildoer
outside world; physical world
something to rely on; aid; someone to rely on; relative; reminder; memento
strut; short vertical post; thickness (of a book minus the cover, a sheaf of paper, etc.); (arch.) handbreadth; (arch.) bundle
bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza); dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn); Hagi (city in Yamaguchi)
consists of; comprises; is made up of
central pillar; principal post; backbone of a society or community
to change into; to be transformed; to be transfigured; to transform; to alter; to convert
to lose (through death; e.g. a wife, child)
to coil itself (e.g. a snake); to loaf around
sickle-shaped neck (e.g. snake, praying mantis); crooked neck; gooseneck
curse; divine punishment; wrath (of an angry spirit)