to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
library; book collection; paperback book
to blindstitch the inside of a fold with (equally spaced) threadings (i.e. pulling shoe lacing tight)
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
attendance; presence; visit; coming; advent
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
hero; heroine; Eroica Symphony (Beethoven, 1804); Heroic Polonaise (Chopin)
sword (esp. a large, double-edged one); blade; bayonet; swordsmanship; stinger; ovipositor
chief; main; principal; major
character (in a play or novel); dramatis personae
senior high school; high school
life; living; I; me; student
god of war; (fig.) war hero
authority; power; function
to have; to possess; to own; to be endowed with
shakudo; gold-copper alloy, often with a blue patina
black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person
cross; crossed; cruciform
self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person
force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort
to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
legal wife; lawful wife; first wife (in polygamous relationship)
to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
official history; authorized history
compilation (esp. dictionary, history, law code); editing
committee; commission; board; panel; committee meeting
section chief; laboratory manager; office head; room monitor
thick amazake; thick sweet sake
junior (at work, school, etc.); younger people; younger student
binding (of a book); design (of a book cover)