casting; founding; minting
to beg; to ask; to request; to invite
counterfeiting; forgery; fabrication
revolution; 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)
powerlessness; helplessness; incompetent
holding one's ground; defending local authority
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)
exposed; scanty; bare; public; open
little power; little influence; (one's) poor ability; limited ability; what little one can do
to be able to do; to be capable of doing
near; close by; within reach; familiar
action of making something; -ification
mark; target; object; subject; point (e.g. of argument)
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around
door; gate; opening; title page
dark (color); concentrated; thick
to try all possible means
time; season; period; phase; stage
complete; completion; perfection; accomplishment
enshrinement; installation (of an image)
unprecedented; record-breaking
praying for the coming of a deity; ceremonial transfer of a divided tutelary deity to a new location
installation of a deity in a new shrine; transfer of a shrine
equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
to become settled; to be fixed
branch family; cadet family; leaving one's employer to set up a new shop with the same name; (arch.) separate house
things left (to one) by the deceased; inherited item; estate; lost item; lost property
nine parts; nine percent; almost
unsigned; without a signature
scabbard; sheath; cap (on pen, brush, etc.); case; margin (between two prices); spread
purple; violet; Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell); type of soy sauce
ring; circle; hoop; wheel; circle (e.g. of friends)
lapis lazuli; lapis lazuli (color); beryl; mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail); glass
bequest; relic; cherished (by the deceased); treasured
twenty-fourth day of the month; twenty-four days
other than; excluding; without
demon; devil; evil spirit; -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend