corridor; gallery; hallway; cloister (i.e. covered walk typically circling a building or garden, esp. in a palace or place of worship)
elevated walkway through the audience to the stage (kabuki); honourable end to a career
to pass (e.g. car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to get ahead of
production (e.g. play); direction
chaos; turmoil; pandemonium; havoc
the first and second; a few
two eights; hachi-hachi (type of game)
separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation
very cheesy; very flashy; extremely gaudy
right beside; close to; nearby
supremacy (over a nation); hegemony; domination; championship; victory
union; alliance; combination; RENGO (Japanese Trade Union Confederation)
solitude; loneliness; isolation
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
split; division; break up
remains; dregs; vestiges; remnant; residue
peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled
to make one's own; to take possession of
ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery
whole nation; whole land; whole country
leaping flames; flying sparks; spread of fire (due to leaping flames); repercussions in unanticipated areas; spilling over; impetigo contagiosa
fruit; nut; berry; fruits; profit
tradition; legend; folklore
millennium; one thousand years; (fig.) long time
heir; inheritor; successor
mineral matter; metallic property
splendour; splendor; pompousness; magnificence
to cover a surface; to spread all over; to blanket; to lay
several people; a few people
virile; tough; masculine; intense
to strum (an instrument); to thrum; to pluck
to die out; to become extinct
certain amount; some; certain person; Mr So-and-so; (arch.) I; (arch.) me