middle of summer; height of summer; midsummer
grand; magnificent; majestic; great; sublime
mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy
to be outdone (by); to be in inferior (to); to compare unfavorably (with); to be behind
family; relatives; dependents; household
the House of Tokugawa; the Tokugawas
instruction in martial arts
unique thing; best on earth
Edo (shogunate capital; former name of Tokyo); Yedo
Owari (former province located in the west of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
branch family; cadet family; establishing a branch family
to complain about one's hard lot
closing in on (the enemy, first place, etc.); coming close to; pressing hard; pressing hard (e.g. with a question); taking to task; grilling
to decide; to determine; to resolve; to break and overflow (e.g. levee); to collapse; to give way
endless; boundless; innumerable; endless; never-ending; going on forever
to leap back; to jump back
to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
ability; competency; talent; skill; capacity
error; mistake; slip; bug
underhand grip (e.g. in gymnastics, etc.); cross-handed grip (e.g. in golf, etc.); using one's hands backwards from their conventional positioning; reverse grip (e.g. of a sword); turning the tables (on an opponent); reverse arm-lock (in judo); joint lock
ninjutsu; combat and stealth techniques used by ninja for espionage, sabotage, assassination, etc.
ninja; person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan
unpreparedness; falsehood; Chinese "Emptiness" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
to deceive; to delude; to trick; to be as ... as ... (e.g. "as bright as day", "as beautiful as a rose")
acrobatics; acrobatic performance; stunt
trunk (of the body); soma
to be dazzled by; to be dizzied by; to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.); (arch.) to become dark
sand, ash, etc., thrown in the eyes to blind someone; throwing something at someone's eyes to blind them; eye poke (in combat sports); eye-gouging
small tool; gadget; (stage) properties; prop; prop master
to deceive; to blind the eyes of
full of wiles and tricks; match between persons equal in shrewdness mobilizing all the tricks each can muster; shrewdly avoiding the opponent's strong points and attacking its weaknesses
to see all (of); to see everything; to see clearly; to perceive clearly; to give up (on); to abandon
to shut one's eyes; to close one's eyes; to turn a blind eye (to); to close one's eyes (to); to die
to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through
betrayer; traitor; turncoat; informer