ageing; aging; senile deterioration
shape of a pillar or column
fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha); person of no worth; pisher; scrub
young child; toddler; child over 1 but not yet of school age
tengu; long-nosed goblin; bragging; conceit; braggart
four-eyed; pattern of four squares
itinerant Buddhist monk; practitioner of Shugendō
foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji; (arch.) money
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
smoothly; with a slipping or sliding motion
according to plan; as planned; on target
towering; astonishingly high
to govern; to manage; to subdue
to be breathtaking; to be stifling
the dead; ghost; person who is obsessed (with money, power, etc.); person with a blind lust (for)
addition and deletion; taking out and putting in; plugging and unplugging; making do; getting by; managing
to stand on tiptoe; to rise in the world; to become arrogant
to be completely changed (for the worse); to be transformed
to smash; to break into pieces
(top) half naked; naked above the waist
to act as one pleases; to throw one's weight around; to have everything one's own way
to conquer (e.g. an enemy); to defeat; to overcome (a difficulty); to out-hit
request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance
to drop like a rock (e.g. of reputation, power, influence); to go down the toilet
dharani; spell; litany; Sanskrit multi-syllabic chant
sopping wet; dripping wet; sodden; drenched; soaked
dimly; faintly; with a faint light; warmly; friendly; in a heartwarming manner
insistence; (major) emphasis; stress
to omit; to leave out; to overtake; to pass; to say; to speak
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
rampancy; prevalence; domination
village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
to have heard somewhere; to sound familiar
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); guandao; Chinese glaive
cutting; severance; section; amputation; disconnection
(another's) daughter; young lady
viewing and treating as one; regarding as the same; equating one thing with another; identification
rude person; villain; blackguard; scoundrel; rogue; libertine