grim; stern; stark; heartless
children's hairstyle of short untied hair; child with short untied hair; young girl working as a servant for a high-class prostitute (Edo period); (arch.) baldness; (arch.) bald head
(flower) bud; promising young person; budding beauty
katsuobushi; small pieces of sliced dried bonito
reason; logic; sense; truth; right
breathing exercise; breath control; spirit cultivation; chi kung; qigong
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle
sitting cross-legged (i.e. Indian style)
telekinesis; psychokinesis
decorative ridge-end tile (traditionally bearing the face of a demon and resembling a gargoyle); hideous face
vengeful spirit (spawned from a person's hate); doppelgänger; co-walker; mankind; souls; people
telephone; telephone number; telephone call; phone call
to prowl after; to keep watch on
enka; traditional-style Japanese popular ballad
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 swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of; to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title)
high spirits; high energy; go!; go-man-go!; fashionably clothed and assertive (esp. of a woman); flashy
bewitched sword; magical sword; demon sword
hay fever; pollinosis (allergy to pollen)
adult; grown-up; person who has come of age; fully fledged; established; qualified
crash; kurash (wrestling)
cold-blooded; unfeeling; heartless; heart of stone; inconsiderate
(temporary) closure of school
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
phi; diameter (units assumed, esp. mm)
to get help; to enlist aid
grotesque; disgusting; gross
to have much trouble; to have a hard time; to not know how to handle
ignition; catching fire; setting on fire
index; indices; indicator
bounds; limits; boundary fence (esp. of horse-riding ground)
wishes of a deceased person; dying wish