plainly; clearly; vividly
cone (e.g. pine, hemlock)
hard struggle; strenuous effort
present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
way to go!; attaboy!; hear, hear!
just what you'd expect from ...; that's just like (him, her, etc.); that's (exactly) why ...; that's (precisely) the reason ...
effect; result; worth; use; avail
to creep up; to crawl up; to overcome (a bad situation); to rise (after a setback)
a little bit; a little while
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
loser; defeated person; the defeated
devising (a way); contriving; device; design; dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)
to cut; to slit; to slash
supreme; sublime; highest
to feel nervous; to feel afraid; to be startled; to be surprised; (arch.) to be shy; (arch.) to be bashful
to cut (grass, hair, etc.); to mow; to clip; to trim; to prune; to shear
gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 0.1804 litres; gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 metres square; one-tenth of the way from the base to the summit of a mountain; conjunction; sum
to fight with swords; to cross swords
deep (of emotions, connections, etc.)
to become weak; to decline; to wear; to abate; to decay; to wither
without the least difference; exactly; perfectly; to the inch
to begin to appear; to begin to come in
crumbling; collapse; ruin; has-been; wannabe
containing (an ingredient, mineral, etc.)
mercy; compassion; clemency; Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
cruelty; coldheartedness; relentless; ruthless
elder sister; older female friend
wriggling; squirming; maneuvering; mischief; despicable acts
to lose hair; to become bald; to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)
lots of; a ton of; a mountain of; piles of; heaps of; so many
to build (a nest); to nest; to haunt (a place); to hang out (somewhere)
to get rid of; to erase; to dispel; to eradicate; to wipe away
inconvenient; inexpedient; unfavourable; wrong; improper; objectionable
to (suddenly) get into a specific mood; (lit.) to get switched on
faulty statement; misleading statement; misunderstanding caused by a misleading statement
inner psychological world; mental world; spiritual world
on the occasion of; at the time of
to look down on; to treat with contempt; to treat disparagingly; to sneer at