student (esp. a university student)
guidance; leadership; instruction; shido (disciplinary action for a minor infringement of the rules of judo)
force; vigor; influence; authority; impetus; momentum
organization; organisation; structure; construction; system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.); tissue; texture (of a rock)
all-Japan; all-Japan championships; (Japanese) national championships
the way of karate; karate
league; federation; union; alliance
starting; inauguration; launch; founding; establishment; start-up
person holding a dan rank; black belt (martial arts); dan player (go, shogi)
black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person
something; nothing (with neg. verb)
black belt (judo, karate, etc.)
to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity
first-class; top grade; characteristic; peculiar; school (e.g. of a performance art); one flag
dirt; filth; stain; blot; spot
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
marking; grading; scoring
wooden joints; paired karate kata; beltwork
just before; on the verge of; on the brink of; just in front of; just ahead of
Kumano Kodo (ancient pilgrimage routes)
(arch.) surrounding area; shore (of the sea); suffix used as a rough indicator of location, direction, time, etc.
to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate
to be loath to; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing); to take (good) care of
visit to a temple or shrine; worship; pilgrimage
tangent point; point of contact; contact (electrical, etc.); point of agreement; common ground
setting sail; putting out to sea; starting anew; embarking on something new
outside of; not covered by
sandbank (in a river); sandbar
mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy
Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata); Quercus gilva (species of oak)
heavy flooding; disastrous flood; deluge; great flood (sent by a deity); flood myth
(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style
thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara; thousand-armed Kannon
(passing along) from mountain to mountain
to become settled; to be fixed