sense of touch; tactile; tactual; hair style with long bangs
to distract one's attention
advance; moving forward; progress
to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)
to cling to; to hold on to; to grapple; to set about doing; to begin; to take hold of
stone weight (as used on pickle-tub covers); weight (as used in balances)
platform; podium; (ceremonial) mound; world (of haiku, art, etc.); (literary) circles; (arch.) mandala
to hold aloft (e.g. a sword); to brandish
zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects; hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family)
to have a showdown; to settle (e.g. a dispute)
four times; four colour process printing (color); CMYK printing
to look down on; to treat with contempt; to treat disparagingly; to sneer at
blind spot (e.g. of a driver); dead angle; dead ground; dead space
(not) in the least; (not) at all
pivot foot; emphasis; priority; focus
amplification (elec.); magnification; amplification; making larger
lapis lazuli; lapis lazuli (color); beryl; mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail); glass
to clash; to collide; to conflict; to meet (by chance); to come across; to run into
eyes and ears; seeing and hearing; one's attention; one's interest
moving slowly (and dull-wittedly)
to straighten up; to sit upright
monologue; soliloquy; talking to oneself
to be utterly amazed; to be stunned; to be disgusted
to get conceited; to become vain; to get stuck up; to get a swollen head; (lit.) to become a tengu
unexpected; unforeseen; strange
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
of no concern at all; no skin off my nose
bamboo sword (resembling a katana, etc.); bamboo imitation sword; dull sword
weak point; unskillfulness
natural defences; natural defenses; steep place