thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
bitter experience; misery; distress; grief; sad thoughts; hardship
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
wordly things; common customs; the world; the (common) people; secularity
fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity
as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly
fruit; nut; seed; (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc.; content; substance
older sister; elder sister
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
(period of) a year; during an era
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring
I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...
hoop (of a barrel, bucket, etc.)
to take (someone) with one; to bring along; to go with; to be accompanied by
in good health; alive and well; going strong
to leave (behind); to leave (undone); to not finish; to save; to set aside; to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death)
blood relationship; blood relative
cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky
mean; contemptible; despicable; dirty; foul; cowardly
sale; selling; selling point; gimmick; seller; vendor
such ... as; or some such
just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street
to break; to smash; to defeat; to destroy; to eliminate
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
innocent; naive; unsophisticated; birth-
(unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario); (lit.) 10000 to 1; (if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that
to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to be dismissed; to be fired
duty; function; office; mission; task
taking captive; carrying away; kidnapping; kidnaping; abduction
Tango (former province located in the north of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)
to cross over; to go across; to extend; to cover; to range
from afar; over a great distance; all the way
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise