release (of information, documents, etc.); disclosure; display; discovery
soul; spirit; willpower; vitality; something as important as one's own life; something invaluable
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
bloody; gory; covered in blood; desperate; frantic
nature (of a person); disposition; temperament; quality; inherent characteristic; property
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs
ugly; unattractive; bad-looking; unsightly; unseemly; disgraceful
to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity
one building (hall, temple, shrine, room); same room; same place; same building
to compete; to contend; to vie; to contest
to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with; to be equivalent to
on the occasion of; at the time of
town; city; municipal; urban
stage (platform); performance; show; stage (phase); part; stage
strenuous efforts; exerting oneself; stirring oneself up; splurge; spending extravagantly (on); treating oneself (to)
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
mountain range; mountain belt
extraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd
frequency (of occurrence)
therefore; and so; for that reason; accordingly; consequently; hence
nothing but; none other than
major war; great war; world war
large amount of money; great cost
to make sacrifices for; to pay dearly for
putting together (e.g. opinions); gathering; collecting; aggregating; summarizing; integrating
to jest; to joke; to play the fool; to act indecently; to be silly over
chip; microchip; chip (in poker, roulette, etc.); casino token; chip (shot); (wood) chip
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
small number; few; minority
influential person; man of importance
consecutive number; serial number
three; three years of age
sense; sensation; feeling; intuition
to compete (with each other); to contend for; to vie for; to rival
fair; fair ball; fair (event)
really; truly; indeed; very; extremely; terribly
proper; reasonable; right; appropriate