mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)
one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume
extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings; curing illness
master of martial arts; practitioner of martial arts
every year; yearly; annually
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
middle of the night; dead of night
to beat; to attack (an enemy); to do away with; to finish off
actual existence; real existence; existing in real life
as a child; when one was a child
(a person of) unrivaled physical strength
tengu; long-nosed goblin; bragging; conceit; braggart
supernatural power; divine power; magical power
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
with these words; while saying
large size (paper, book, etc.); ōban; large oval gold coin used in the Edo period
face; mask; face guard; (in kendo) striking the head; surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect
pictorial book; picture book; illustrated reference book; identification manual; field guide
ancient Shinto music and dancing
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up
eyetooth; cuspid; canine (tooth); dogtooth
to show; to bare (the teeth)
opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes)
from the beginning; without hesitation; flatly (e.g. refusing); entirely; completely
to get jealous; (lit.) to grow horns
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
to stand on end (hair, fur); to bristle; to ruffle (up)
fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very
yaksha (Buddhist guardian deities sometimes depicted as demonic warriors)
rakshasa; man-eating demon in Hinduism and Buddhism
eccentric; queer; unconventional; peculiar; bizarre; strange
tiger (Panthera tigris); drunkard; drunk; sot
to wear (sword, decoration, etc.); to carry; to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission); to take on; to have a trace of; to be tinged with
point in common; common feature