breaking the front line; frontal breakthrough
head-on fight; direct confrontation; head-to-head contest
great stature; large build
to sustain a serious wound
gradually (progress into a state); in sequence; in order; in turn
to unravel; to untie; to break into small pieces (of fish, meat, etc.); to relax; to ease
obedient; submissive; tame; slavish
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
older brother; elder brother
five most important temples of a region
three mountains; three shrines (of Kumano); three kingdoms (of 14th and 15th-century Okinawa)
confident; assured; self-assured; bullish (e.g. market)
royal prince; crown prince's younger brother
to destroy; to crush; to break by striking; to spoil; to ruin
to win and advance to the next round
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance; thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
capitulation; surrender; submission; yield
military discipline; military regulations; military rules
with a bang (clash, bump)
to lament; to grieve; to regret; to deplore
downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction
first cry of a newborn baby
annexation; merger; swallowing up
surplus power; momentum; impetus; inertia
to lie in wait (for); to be on the watch (for); to wait (for); to watch (for)
soon; shortly; before long; nearly; almost
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)
reply (e.g. email, fax, letter); answer
severe punishment; rigorous measures
preferential treatment; special treatment; discrimination; express delivery; special delivery
to summon; to call (e.g. phone); to convene; to invoke (e.g. subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)
to lure out of; to decoy out of; to drive to (tears, sleep, etc.); to evoke (sympathy, etc.); (arch.) to abduct; (arch.) to entice out of
to come out; to appear; to turn up; to emerge
to fall behind; to lag behind; to lose (race, contest)
to be effeminate; to be a fop; to break into a smile; to grin
not funny; not a laughing matter; not a joke
stifled (laughter); simmering
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up