good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable
passerby; pedestrian; foot passenger
to tag along; to follow; to tail; to leave tracks; to leave footprints
jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)
to be visible to; to be seen by; to meet one's eyes
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
to become pale; to turn pale
soul; spirit; departed soul; ghost
Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama); Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto); fox (said to be messengers of Inari); fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes); inarizushi
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
torii; Shinto shrine archway
sign of life; human presence; humanity; humaneness
to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach
popularity; public favor; condition (e.g. market); tone; character
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
the other day; lately; recently; meanwhile; in the meantime
to rendezvous; to meet at a prearranged place and time; to arrange to meet
from the viewpoint of; according to
independently; individually; separately; alone; singlehanded; unassisted
to assault with a sword; to stab at; to slash at
upper tier; upper section; place of honor; place of honour; dais; raised part of floor
to hold aloft (e.g. a sword); to brandish
there is no need to; it is fine if you don't; unnecessary; does not match; out of reach of
before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand
easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic
attack; assault; raid; criticism; censure; denunciation
to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to set free; to let go; to fail to ...
to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep
stickiness; viscosity; tenacity; persistence
to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)