to have a bitter experience
to hack; to chop (firewood, meat, etc.); to chop off (e.g. a head)
ground cherry (Physalis alkekengi var. franchetii); husk tomato; Chinese lantern plant; children's noisemaking toy
beast (i.e. any animal other than man); person reborn into the animal realm; brute (i.e. a contemptible human being); damn it; damn
water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis); domestic Asian water buffalo; wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee); Asian water buffalo
(person treated as a) plaything
(person who has the) hands of God; master; virtuoso
to fail to die (e.g. after suicide attempt or accident); to survive; to outlive
blunt (e.g. sword); dull; lazy; cowardly; good for nothing
Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
to walk someone off (e.g. to the police station)
to rule; to govern; to administer
destruction; annihilation; extermination
nothing special; no big deal; doesn't matter
in swarms; in clusters; tediously; slowly
remainder; remnant; not very; not much; too much; excessively
scabbard; sheath; cap (on pen, brush, etc.); case; margin (between two prices); spread
wounded person; injured person
place to die; place of death
absent-mindedly; idly; vacantly; doing nothing
to avenge (somebody) by striking down their killer
to disappear; to vanish; to go; to leave; to die
hindrance; obstacle; to visit (someone's home); demon who hinders Buddhist training; demon who obstructs sentient beings from maintaining moral behaviour
to cut deep into; to cut one's way into (an enemy position); to rush on; to press someone hard (e.g. with questions); to get to the heart of (a matter)
to force (someone) to take part; to take along unwillingly
ray (any fish of superorder Batoidea)
to pay back a debt; to have one's revenge; to settle a score; to get back at someone
to push aside; to brush or thrust aside; to remove; to get rid of
to avoid (situation); to ward off; to avert
harsh (taste, feeling, etc.); acrid; sharp (language, question, etc.); biting; nasty; gross
to be squashed by; to be pinned under
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
to run (up hill, stairs, etc.)
slowly; inefficiently; tardily; dawdling
two times; twice; two degrees