remora (any fish of family Echeneidae); suckerfish; live sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates); person who attaches themself to someone else for personal gain; hanger-on
aphid; plant louse; cockroach; Japanese house bat (Pipistrellus abramus); hanger-on; parasite
coexistence; living together; symbiosis; paragenesis
harmful insect; noxious insect; pest; vermin
patience; perseverance; persistence; tenacity; energy
street at night; making a night journey
cavity; hollow; void; hollow (voice, smile, etc.); blank (eyes, look, etc.); vacant (expression, stare, etc.)
inverted; upside down; reversed; back to front
stature; body height; one's means; one's status; one's ability
shaku (unit of distance approximately equal to 30.3 cm); rule; measure; length
occasion; time; section (of a literary work or piece of music); passage; clause; season; term
fear; dread; fright; willies
to swing; to wield (physically); to exercise (e.g. power, ability); to exhibit; to flourish; to prosper
color (of an animal); body color
to blow out; to spout out
shadow (e.g. on someone's happiness); cloud; shade; gloom
blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself (as); to change (into); to transform; to change radically (for the better)
steel; sword steel; sword
disapproval; disagreement; no; the noes; not ...; dis-
red; crimson; scarlet; Red; communist
ezōshi (Edo-period illustrated story book)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking
great achievement; great feat; great work; great undertaking
mysterious; bewitching; alluring; enticing; enchanting
to twinkle (e.g. stars); to flicker; to waver; to blink (one's eyes); to wink; to bat
to go away; to become more distant; to fade away; to be estranged
to bend (a piece of wood, etc.); to bow
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha); person of no worth; pisher; scrub
predation; eating prey; preying upon
to beat someone to the punch; to get the drop on (someone); to forestall
opposite side; other side; other party
standing tall; towering; soaring