upper half of the body; upper body
railway crossing; railroad crossing; starting line; scratch; determination; stepping over the edge of the ring
beat; palpitation; pulsation; throbbing
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
strategy meeting; council of war
to arrive home; to return
front basket (e.g. on a bicycle)
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
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
(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
eyetooth; cuspid; canine (tooth); dogtooth
to show; to bare (the teeth)
opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes)
to get jealous; (lit.) to grow horns
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
point in common; common feature