tray; family; household; O-Bon; Bon Festival; gambler's den
rising (smoke, clouds, etc.); rolling up; billowing up
dark clouds; black clouds
to get worse; to deteriorate; to go from bad to worse; to spoil (of food); to go bad; to perish
favorite sword; cherished sword
gaining time; stalling for time; time-buying
to surge; to well up; to gush out
disabling; invalidation; nullification; vitiation
easy; simple; there's no way that ...
absolutely; unconditionally; never (with neg. verb)
to raise; to bring up; to rear; to cultivate; to foster; to nurture
bonds (between people); (emotional) ties; relationship; tether; fetters
flute; fife; pipe; whistle
powerful; strong; forceful; reassuring; encouraging
to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)
sunlight; rays of the Sun
fortitude; firmness of character; hardihood; manliness
duty; sense of duty; honor; in-law; relation by marriage
one's true worth; one's true self; what one is really made of
true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
general idea; concept; notion
cooperation; coordination; link
size; large and small (sizes); various sizes; daishō (matched pair of long and short swords); large and small drums; long months and short months; sic bo (Macao dice game)
regular game; regular-season game
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
(out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain
one mind; wholeheartedness; one's whole heart
to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum
to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass
perfect; complete; flawless
thunder; thunderclap; crash of thunder
to clear away; to clear land; to prune; to lop off
light emanating from a sword; shimmering of a sword
to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve
Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); Singapore
such; like that; in that way
training; drill; practice; discipline
busyness; a lot of things to do; frequent use; heavy use (of); many uses
keeping an alternative up one's sleeve; two-stage preparation