semicircular; crescent-shaped; half-moon
flight (e.g. airline flight); trip (e.g. train trip); mail; post; opportunity; chance
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
to let something (or somebody) go past; to do too much
saying "Ah!"; making one say "Ah!"; surprisingly; astonishingly
inside out; upside down; flip side; opposite; contrary
vigilance; caution; alertness; precaution; being on guard
three sides; small offering stand
one eye; one of one's eyes
to succeed (in doing); to pull something off; to manage (to do a job)
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
encouragement; backing; reinforcements
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
thousand years; very long period; forever
very long period; forever; eight thousand years
special; auspicious; happy; naive; innocent; good-natured
three sides; three faces; page three (of a newspaper)
plan; trick; plot; stratagem; scheme; trap
plan; policy; means; fifth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; right upward flick
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; confusion
Tsushima (former province located on Tsushima Island in present-day Nagasaki Prefecture); Tsushima (island)
Tsugaru (Western region of Aomori Prefecture)
La Pérouse Strait (between Hokkaido and Sakhalin); Sōya Strait
foreign country; foreign land; strange land; far-off land
your Excellency; his Excellency; her Excellency
dramatic (improvement); remarkable (difference); marked; (far) better; exceptional
to be the same; to coincide; to correspond
ingenuity; resourcefulness
to enclose (with); to surround (with); to turn (one's head, heel, etc.); to think over; to work out; (arch.) to notify (orally or in writing)
one's deceased younger brother
vine; bine; bow; temple arm; connections; contacts
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations