waterfall; (arch.) rapids
to conceal oneself; to hide; to endure; to bear; to stand
vajra (indestructible substance); diamond; adamantine; thunderbolt; Indra's weapon; Buddhist symbol of the indestructible truth
outside world; physical world
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
to reject; to repulse; to repel; to bounce back; to counterattack; to strike back
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
weak point; weakness; shortcoming; defect; flaw; sore spot
nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all
protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
roughly; approximately; (cutting) in one stroke; (breaking apart) with vigour; (cutting) deeply; (splitting) wide open
change; conversion; transformation; transformation
fear; dread; fright; willies
to leap back; to jump back
to overflow from something full
to be solved; to be resolved; to loosen; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. a ban)
to scatter in all directions (like baby spiders)
defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage
reality; actuality; actual conditions; ultimate reality; absolute truth
to mistake someone for someone else; to misread; to misjudge
to erase; to drown out (e.g. a voice); to make disappear
having nothing to do; having time on one's hands (and not knowing what to do); being at a loose end; being bored
domestic animals; livestock; cattle
stool (stood on to reach high objects); small stepladder; (fig.) stepping stone
to roll up; to be rolled up
(using) one's whole body; (putting in) all one's efforts; (exerting) all one's energies
with no regard to one's appearances; with no concern of how one's act looks like
from the beginning; from the first; all along; of course
(out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
to break into fragments; to go to pieces
while; during (the time when)
space; air; midair; (from) memory; (by) heart
unsatisfying; disappointing; abrupt; not enough; too quick; too short