prevention of crime; security (device, camera, etc.)
(personal) appearance; (personal) grooming; essential skill; required knowledge
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement
to not make good use of (e.g. advice); to disregard; to treat as useless; to treat with disdain
in the end; at the end of the day
handwriting; calligraphy specimen; example of penmanship; holograph
by all means; no matter what; at any rate
putting life into; animating; cheering up
curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
to be completely absorbed in; to fall for (something)
large (amount of money); huge; hefty; expensive
one's heart; the mind; inner feelings; inmost thoughts; true motives
to get between; to be caught in
to hang; to droop; to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status); to confer; to drip; to ooze; to leave behind (at death)
juicy (i.e. having lots of juice or liquid); Okinawan rice gruel meal
to form a complete whole; to be joined together
capable of anything; liable to do
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
to give up; to admit defeat; to throw in the towel
neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity
to plant; to grow; to insert; to transplant; to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent); to instill (idea, value, etc.)
to make one's rounds; to patrol
defense; defence; guard; policing; security
conspirators; faction; cabal; clique
to descend; to stoop; to degrade oneself; to be reduced to
to enter; to trespass; to interfere; to meddle; to pry into
to let down one's guard; to relax one's guard
sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)
to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention
boisterously; roughly; briskly