trivial; not amounting to much
sharp, loud rebuke; bark; roar; rebuke used in Zen to achieve enlightenment
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to present; to do (for someone)
gesture; gesticulation; motion
to differ; to be different; to run counter to; to change (into something out of the ordinary)
graduation; completion (of a course); moving on (from); outgrowing (something); leaving (a group, company, etc.); quitting
writing (an essay, prose, etc.); composition; formal writing with little real meaning
behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; (lit.) 2nd year of junior high sickness
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
symptoms; condition (of a patient)
whole (body); full-length (e.g. portrait); systemic
sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
to spread (e.g. a rumor); to circulate; to disseminate
personification; impersonation; embodiment
fat; thick; deep (of a voice); thick; daring; shameless
field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness
to have meaning; to be meaningful
to move (to another place or state); to change (e.g. of state, affiliation, scenery, etc.); to spread (of a fire, smell, etc.); to catch (an illness); to move (e.g. of one's focus); to change (e.g. of one's interest)
to begin (doing); to start (doing)
dark history; dark past; something one wants to forget or pretend never happened
story; tale; talk; discussion
daruma; tumbling doll; Bodhidharma; prostitute
Harima (former province located in the southwestern part of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture)
regular; ordinary (e.g. session of parliament); established usage; precedent; regular practice
in high spirits; excited; energetic
seven-to-three ratio; 70-30 split; 70-30 hair part; hairstyle with hair parted in a 70-30 ratio
Kawachi (former province located in the east of present-day Osaka Prefecture)
to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps
attacking one opponent then immediately attacking another
to cut off (someone's head); to behead; to decapitate
immediate ruling; immediate decision; deciding for oneself; direct ruling; direct judgement
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
(being) most satisfactory; (being) quite satisfied; (being) quite enough
to experience (something unpleasant); to go through; to suffer
to abandon; to throw away; to discard; to forsake
peremptorily; willy-nilly; forcibly
to behead; to decapitate; to fire; to dismiss
June; sixth month of the lunar calendar
electric shock; blitz; lightning attack; sudden and without warning; shocking