castle site; ruins of a castle
originator; ringleader; perpetrator; main culprit; person responsible
to be perturbed; to be agitated
true character; true heart; true spirit
badness; evilness; bad; evil
to take (someone) away; to carry off; to abduct; to kidnap
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
to become attached (to); to take (to); to become affectionate (with); to be tamed
grave; solemn; stern; authoritative; hard (e.g. fact)
little girl; maiden; young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)
to express (orally); to put into words; to say out loud
to replace; to move; to change the position of
to play with; to joke; to use (esp. trick, sophistry, etc.); to deride; to scoff at; to make fun of
meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; in contrast
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect
to rescue from; to help out of; to save
spread (e.g. of a disease); rampancy; infestation; proliferation; being widespread
to open up a path; to clear a path; to open up doors; to pave the way
seal; to seal (e.g. a letter); to affix a seal; to seal up
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
current; urgent; to confront (an issue); to face (up to something); for the meantime; at present
peril; danger; hazard; distress
one's own strength or effort; (by) oneself
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
(nearly certain) death; extremely dangerous place (or situation) from which one might not return alive; proper place to die; dilemma; predicament
to turn; to shift; to alter; to distract
circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral
transmission; propagation; spread; circulation; diffusion; dissemination
border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
to devote oneself; to do one thing exclusively; to make a job of; to decide to
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
to shut one's eyes; to ignore; to pretend not to know; to die
infancy; childhood; tender age
three generations; three periods; third generation
falling into straitened circumstances; downfall; ruin