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)
warp; curvature; curve; arch
famous sword; sword blade by Masamune; sake; Japanese rice wine; brand of sake from Nada region during Tenpō era (1830-1844)
to arrange beforehand; to make a sign to each other; to conspire
blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology); Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens)
to pay no heed to; to not care about; to take no notice of
to hold all the while; to talk about nothing but
shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation
bamboo sword (resembling a katana, etc.); bamboo imitation sword; dull sword
doomed (business, trade, etc.); in a bad state; poor
leadership; initiative; spearhead
borrowing something without returning it; mooching; welching
thunderous; rumbling; thunderously; rumblingly
rock (music); rock; boulder; on the rocks
gaining nothing by; getting nowhere by
magic bullet; magic bullets
level; standard; water level
to eat too much; to overeat
longish; moderately long; somewhat long; fairly long
sense of unity; sense of oneness
with a clink (click, clack)
to take precautions; to set a guard against attack
sweeping victory; easy victory
laboratory; seminar room; professor's office
whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt
to flick out; to spring out; to calculate; to work out; to expel (from a group); to drive out
ethics; ethical viewpoint; moral value; sense of duty; sense of ethics
tedious; lengthy; overlong; long-winded
rushing into; breaking into; storming; plunging into (war, etc.); embarking on (a new venture)
how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name