clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
to cut off; to cut up; to tear to pieces
bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage; bleeding money; red ink; selling below cost
left hand; left-hand side; left-hand direction; (on) the left
little finger; pinky; little toe
heel (of foot, shoe, stocking, etc.)
to drip; to drop; to trickle; to overflow (with freshness, beauty, etc.)
stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
having wounds all over one's body; being wounded all over; receiving a drubbing; being subjected to a barrage of criticism
terrific; fierce; terrible; tremendous; dreadful; awful
to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.); to relate; to tell of; to show; to indicate
private; informal; among one's people (group, friends)
immediate follower (of the shogun)
disposition; temperament; nature; mentality; spirit; character
secret; private; surreptitious
combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting
force; unit; corps; squad; troops; party
members; member; constituent
to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)
apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal
unification; bringing together; generalization; control; supervision
leader; reader; reading book; reader (i.e. someone who reads); microreader; dotted line (in printing)
degeneration; retrogression
old-fashioned; archaic; antique; antiquated
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
have to do; must; should; ought to
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style
how much; how many; however
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
that day; the very same day
to fight against; to oppose; to face
killing a would-be avenger; having the tables turned on someone (e.g. by a challenger); being beaten at one's own game