assembly hall; meeting place; venue; grounds
poisonous air; poisonous gas; poisonous ingredient; poisonous nature; malice; spite
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
to quiet; to calm down; to compose oneself; to settle down
Sui dynasty (China, 581-618)
important point; point to check; point not to miss; checkpoint
passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage; passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing
pressure; urgency; tension; imminence; acuteness
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago
pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously
inorganic matter; mineral matter; cold; inhuman; robotic
slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark
to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spatter; to scatter; to hurry
standing upright; standing bolt upright; rearing
purification; cleanup (e.g. of politics); purge
phala (attained state, result); enlightenment (as the fruits of one's Buddhist practice); fruit; counter for pieces of fruit
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
(public) notice; attention; public eye; public gaze
low-ranking samurai; rolling three and one (in a dice game)
uniform; even; across-the-board; equal
field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness
something to rely on; aid; someone to rely on; relative; reminder; memento
evil; wickedness; (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.); the bad guy
to detest; to abhor; to loathe
thousands; several thousand
to shake; to swing; to sway; to shock
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to
look!; there!; here!; that is
exit; gateway; way out; outlet; vent; leak
to go mad; to go crazy; to lose one's mind
dealing with; coping with
virtually empty; quite empty; inadequately defended; defenseless; defenceless
trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)
to punch; to hit and hit; to stamp out; to pierce; to bore into; to knock down walls
to be oversized (overloud, etc.)
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
sluice gate; water gate; flood gate