hiring from another company; recruitment; quick costume change in kabuki (taking off outer costume); drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate)
to take off; to jump; to take the plunge; to decide; to step out of the ring
outline; summary; gist; roughly; about; nearly
holding a castle (during a siege); holing up; confinement (to one's home); staying at home; staying indoors
encirclement; encircling net; tight besiegement
impossible to understand; impossible to decipher
barometer (instrument); measure (e.g. of one's health); indicator; index
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
war situation; progress of a battle
to disentangle; to untangle; to unravel; to relax; to soften; to relieve (e.g. stress, tension)
sour look; surly face; pout
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
one's feeling while riding; comfort (of a vehicle); ride quality
breaking the front line; frontal breakthrough
ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)
cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
storage; putting or stowing away; receipt (of funds, payment, etc.); harvesting
measured amount (esp. of medicine); dosing; manner of seasoning; making adjustments based on experience; doing something by feel
foxes and tanuki; sly fellow; deceiver
top (of a mountain); summit; peak; height; orgasm; climax
sentiment; sentimentality
lived-in feel (e.g. of a room); sense of life; hints of daily life
sentimental; emotional; maudlin; mawkish
front entrance; front door
domestic affairs; internal administration
skull (esp. weatherbeaten, used as symbol of death); death's head; cranium
going up and down; ascent and descent; climb and descent
starting field which contains the November and/or December 20-point card
group engaged in some activity (players, companies, forces, etc.)
idly; lazily; aimlessly; evasively; elusively; vaguely
to be grieved at heart; to be troubled; to be worried; to trouble oneself (about something)
land near a castle; castle town
stationing (troops); occupancy
to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside
bounds; limits; boundary fence (esp. of horse-riding ground)
to loosen one's sword slightly in the scabbard
wrong direction; different direction (from what one expected)
(electrical) ground; earth; grounding; touching the ground; landing (an airplane)