hindrance; obstacle; to visit (someone's home); demon who hinders Buddhist training; demon who obstructs sentient beings from maintaining moral behaviour
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against
rank; place (e.g. first place); decimal place; counter for ghosts
to set up (a house, store, etc.); to build; to have at the ready (e.g. a gun); to hold in preparation (e.g. a camera); to adopt a posture; to assume a stance; to put on an air
to strike a pose (in kabuki); to assume a posture; to make a proud gesture; to put on an air of confidence; to speak boastfully
curtain; bunting; act (in play)
(arch.) the art of war; (arch.) martial arts; military force; the sword; valor; bravery
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
benefit; use; good; profit; gains
surplus-; excess-; over-; per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)
perpetrators of (some) crime; (some type of) crime
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
counter for waves (of a repeated occurrence)
ridge of earth between rice fields; ridge between grooves in threshold or lintel; footpath between rice fields; causeway
ditch; drain; groove; tread; gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf
trough; gutter; water pipe; coulisse (of a sword blade)
skewer; spit; skewering; impalement; running through (e.g. with spear)
namahage; folklore demon of the Oga Peninsula (people dress up as them on New Year's Eve to admonish children)
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
fat; thick; deep (of a voice); thick; daring; shameless
glaring at each other; confrontation; standoff; face-off
skin; body (in the context of intimate bodily contact); surface; grain (e.g. of wood); disposition; temperament
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money
(arch.) charmed and cursed; something that bewilders; something that leads one astray; the work of demons
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
spirit; mind; nature; disposition; motivation; intention
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)