large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together; clamp; cramp (metal); tie (metaphorical, e.g. something that binds two people together)
mountain road; mountain trail
Mino (former province located in the south of present-day Gifu Prefecture)
route; road; distance travelled in a day; one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s)
gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail
to be burned out (of one's home)
hollow; cavity; sunken place; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) female genitalia
enemy's strength or fighting power
to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to be compensated; to make up for one's losses
along the way; along the road
detour; circumvention; turning movement
cormorant fishing; cormorant fisherman
(mountain) pass; highest point on a mountain road; ridge; peak (e.g. of summer); worst (e.g. of an illness); crisis
information; news; report; reward; retribution
in the mountains; among the mountains
fourth day of the month; four days
the Horse (seventh sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Horse (around noon, 11am-1pm, or 12 noon-2pm); south; fifth month of the lunar calendar
precipice; steep (e.g. mountain pass)
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
to run around trying to escape; to run from place to place
agile; nimble; casual (clothing); light (e.g. luggage); carefree; with limited responsibility
valley (with a river running through it); gorge; ravine; canyon
limply; wearily; listlessly; languidly; exhaustedly; unenergetically
dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; trap; wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed; conclusion (of a speech, etc.)
attack on both sides; pincer movement; double envelopment
to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
fat; tallow; lard; grease
to grapple with; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to come to grips with; to work hard on
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
close (e.g. in terms of relationship); intimate
the whole body; the five styles of writing Chinese characters; the five parts of the body (head, two hands and two feet; or head, neck, chest, hands and feet)
cause of a disease; root of an evil
equal; identical; the same; no different (to); just like; equivalent
heroic; brave; majestic; soul-stirring; lively; gallant