pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
to fall ill; to suffer from (e.g. a disease); to have something wrong with (e.g. an inner organ)
transplant surgery; transplant operation
hope; promise; expectation; anticipation; side of a structural member
illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated
to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with
demon of ill health; disease
to brave; to risk; to harm; to afflict; to desecrate; to profane
to torment; to punish; to treat harshly; to beat up; to give a drubbing; to cause damage to
stimulation (e.g. of an economy); revitalization (e.g. of a town); rejuvenation; activation
but then; although; though; reasonable; natural; just
decline; ebb; failure; decay; decrease; loss
is something that; is that which
no problem; all right; not an issue; unobjectionable
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
to some extent; to a certain extent
to soften; to moderate; to relieve
lack of physical exercise; insufficient exercise; inactivity
to curse; to cast a spell; to haunt; to cause a bad result; to bring about a negative outcome
don't worry about it; there is nothing to fear; there is no need for anxiety; everything is under control
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
mixture; blending; complication; crossing; intersecting; interlacing
to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to blackmail; to extort; to shake down
to be smeared; to be covered
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
naked sword; drawn sword; shellfish removed from the shell
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
deadpan face; expressionless white face; po-faced
to drive away; to order off; to chase away; to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
to freeze (from fear, etc.); to be unable to move (e.g. from surprise); to be paralyzed (with horror, etc.); to cower; to shrink in on oneself
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
one eye; one of one's eyes
to close (one's eyes); to shut