assertion; declaration; affirmation
financial power; financial means; wealth
mountains and rivers; natural surroundings
method; process; manner; way; means; technique
deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing
superficial; apparent; seeming; surface; cosmetic
to get on a horse; to mount a horse
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
to be stormy; to be rough; to be rough (of skin); to be chapped; to be ruined; to fall into ruin
affliction; hardship; difficulty; suffering; trouble
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
1000 ri; (a) long distance
hack; inferior horse; inferior person; incapable person
ordinary person; run-of-the-mill people; John Doe; Jane Doe
displeasure; discomfort; unpleasantness; indisposition; ailment
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
especially; particularly; unusually; (arch.) additionally
to build up; to establish (one's reputation)
the East; the Orient; (East) Asia; Japan
genius; brilliance; unusual talent; gifted person; person of unusual talent
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
by nature; naturally; by birth; inborn
to have both; to possess both; to combine with
everything; anything; nothing
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
rather; better; instead; if anything
unselfish; selfless; disinterested
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
previous generation; former ages
predecessor; pioneer; ancestor
just; fair; proper; reasonable
speckles; spotted pattern
unusual; rare; new; novel; fine (e.g. gift)