breakthrough; great discovery
ceremony performed by a sorcerer to protect a noble setting out on a trip; walking in large steps; walking with a disabled leg; someone with a disabled leg
making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi
beep; honk (car horn); buzz (buzzer); boo (wrong answer, like buzzer on quiz shows)
zabuton (flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling; usu. rectangular)
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
running away; escaping on foot
gear; speed (e.g. 4-speed transmission)
to make something one's own; to appropriate for oneself
soldier; combatant; warrior
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship
workshop; studio; atelier
rough sketch; design; cartoon
one's house; one's home; one's family
to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)
quickly; at once; right away; hurriedly
in the same way as; just like
such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
hidden treasure; treasured article
origin; beginning; source; rise
Atlantis; Atlantis (space shuttle)
mystery; mysteriousness; secret
Qin dynasty (of China; 221-207 BCE); Ch'in dynasty
Qin Shi Huang (259 BCE-210 BCE), first emperor of unified China; Shihuangdi
Genghis Khan (2004 TV series)
indispensable; essential; requisite; required; compulsory; necessary
item; something that one "just has to have"
preface; introduction; preamble
bone; frame; outline; core; backbone; spirit
child; boy; (arch.) I; (arch.) me