near; close; close (in time); soon; close (relationship); friendly
to prick; to stab; to poke; to prod; to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with
direction; way; person; lady; method of; manner of; care of ...
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
half; 50%; tie; 5 parts; 5%
getting closer; drawing nearer; being not much different; being near (age, skill, etc.); becoming close (i.e. friendly); becoming intimate
to resign; to abandon; to step aside; to back out of; to retire; to get away
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
fear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare
conquest (of a difficulty, illness, handicap, etc.); overcoming; bringing under control; subjugation; victory over
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
close adhesion; sticking firmly to; relating closely to; having relevance to; contact printing
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
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
part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
to be hit; to strike; to touch; to be in contact; to be equivalent to; to be applicable; to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.)
reason; cause; circumstances
certain victory; sure victory; invincibility
deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid
island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
secret swordsmanship (of a specific school); secret traditions of fencing
to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)
cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae spp.)
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
tiger (Panthera tigris); drunkard; drunk; sot
in comparison to; rather than
at once; immediately; without delay; promptly
to help; to assist; to aid; to contribute to; to be a factor in
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard
together (with); at the same time; in a lump
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
divorce; dissolution of adoption