sleep-talking; nonsense; gibberish
alarm clock; waking up; keeping oneself awake; type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself
to hang; to suspend; to lower; to reduce; to demote; to move back
reflection; reconsideration; introspection; regret; repentance; remorse
two times; twice; two degrees
it's none of your business; it's not your concern
to make merry; to frolic; to be in high spirits
to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of
blade; sword; forged blade; wavy pattern on forged blades; sharpness; unhulled rice
to hew; to chop up; to mangle; to mince
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
to happen to meet; to come across
to stand up; to get up; to rise; to recover; to take action; to start; to make the initial charge
to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot
life or death struggle; mortal combat; struggle to the death
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery
to shout; to cry; to scream; to clamor (for or against); to clamour (for or against)
kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone
to turn; to revolve; to visit several places; to function well; to pass a certain time
to scramble for; to struggle for; to contend for; to fight for
to get to know each other; to make acquaintance
hooo-hokekyo (call of the Japanese bush warbler); chirp-chirp; tweet-tweet
strangeness; abnormality; disorder
white; striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus); speech; one's lines; white dragon tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles; (arch.) white person
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
face; mask; face guard; (in kendo) striking the head; surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect
watch-keeping; guard; lookout
to be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class; to skip out
nodding off (while sitting); dozing
north; the North; northern territories; North Korea; (arch.) north wind
nobleman; dignitary; feudal lord (of the Edo period); daimyō; man brought up away from the world; arrogant man with little knowledge of the ways of the world
fake; something false; sham; deception
to capture; to seize; to plunder
of course; certainly; naturally
equal division (of profits, prize money, etc.); equal split