hesitation; bewilderment; illusion; delusion; inability to reach enlightenment
gear; speed (e.g. 4-speed transmission)
continued alertness; unrelaxed alertness; follow-through (e.g. in archery); lingering affection; attachment
to challenge to (a fight, game, etc.); to throw down the gauntlet; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to attempt; to pressure (someone) for sex; to make advances to
one's own strength or effort; (by) oneself
unusual occurrence; variation; mutation
essence; true nature; substance; reality
reason of being; raison d'être; meaning of one's existence
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
shin guards; shin pads; greaves; leggings
crown (of head); summit (of mountain); easy win for one; something received
kasaya; monk's stole; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder)
empty; hollow; bare; main hall of a temple (often vast and empty)
reckless; daredevil; frantic; foolhardy
to knock down; to beat up (till unable to stand)
to be within one's capabilities; to be easy to chew
attaching the polite suffix "-sama" to someone's name
opponent; adversary; the competition; the other side; one's enemy
guts; pluck; nerve; spirit
to talk on and on; to rattle on; to keep on talking (without pause)
pure heart; naivete; innocence
by nature; from the very beginning; through and through; absolutely (not); (not) at all
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
sword skills; swordsmanship
counting backwards; calculating backwards; inverse operation
complete victory; total victory
work-in-progress; working state
to happen to meet; to come across; to run into; to bump into
to prepare for death; to get ready to die
accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation
(suffering a) complete defeat; utter defeat; annihilation
to hear a rumor; to get wind of
to moisten; to wet; to profit; to enrich; to benefit
food expenses; cost of one's board
endless; boundless; everlasting
distant place; faraway location; far away
distance; perspective; far and near; here and there
conclusion; end; settlement; balance; harmony; fitting (in)
desperately; for one's dear life
sense of emptiness; empty feeling; feeling of meaninglessness