jpdb beta

complete victory; total victory

3

orthodox

2

fight; scuffle; walking about; walking around; conducting oneself; stroll (in noh, an action piece involving circling the stage)

9

with a single blow; with one stroke

1

remarkable ability; amazing ability

2

half-human and half-beast

2

thin; slender; slim; skinny

2

to pinch and crush; to pinch out

2

half-wit; fool; simpleton

4

giant arm; huge arm; oversized arm

1

(made of) steel

4

drainage; gutter; ditch

1

to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to whine; to sing; to chirp

1

vulgar person; low-life; sleazebag; (arch.) lowly person; (arch.) person of humble rank; (arch.) peasant

3

crushing (into pieces); smashing; cracking; breaking up

6

heavyweight class

3

lump of iron; iron ingot

2

to shake; to swing; to sway; to shock

7

being covered in blood

1

afterimage; after image

6

belligerence; fighting spirit

4

foreign country

1

Capoul

2

territory; fiefdom; feudal domain

2

traveling about to gain skill in combat (travelling)

4

Far East

1

warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; person with a strong backbone; person that does incredible things; person of considerable talent

4

ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer

1

height; stature; length (esp. of clothing); all (one has); everything; magnificence (of a waka poem, etc.)

1

haori (Japanese formal coat)

4

narrow eyes; half-open eyes; fine mesh; fine texture; tight weave

1

dyeing; printing

1

green; greenery; verdure

23

kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes

2

to dress stylishly; to joke; to play on words

1

naginata; polearm with a curved single-edged blade (similar to a glaive); naginata; martial art of wielding the naginata

1

swordsmith

1

maelstrom; the state of affairs being in great turmoil

2

raging waves

1

gentlemen; men; the men's (sign on toilet, bathroom, etc. doors)

1

to feel hot; to flush; to burn

1

to hold a sword above one's head; to be haughty; to be arrogant

6

odd; strange; queer; peculiar

2

Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture); sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

1

Jigen-ryū; school of swordsmanship founded in the Satsuma domain in the early Edo period

1

sword; blade; single stroke

7

we have a result!; game over!; match!

3

visual hallucination; vision

1

to tie; to fasten; to wear (necktie, belt); to put on; to total; to sum; to be strict with

3

to hold firmly in one's mouth; to clamp down on with one's teeth; to bring (a man) in (for sexual purposes); to lure in

3