to feed (e.g. an animal on oats); to let eat; to support (e.g. a family); to provide for; to inflict (damage); to deal (e.g. a blow)
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier); guandao; Chinese glaive
to have a secret affair; to meet secretly (for two persons); to flirt with one another
loud laughter; roaring with laughter
to carry on; to go on with one's life; to keep alive; to stay alive; to survive
obstinate; stubborn; mulish; die-hard; bigoted
anger; rage; resentment; indignation; exasperation
Tuesday; fire (second of the five elements)
shakuhachi; end-blown fippleless bamboo flute; blow job; fellatio
Izumi (former province located in the southwest of present-day Osaka Prefecture)
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
to tear up; to tear off; to rip up; to separate (e.g. a couple); to disrupt (a relationship)
to leap out (e.g. onto the stage); to spring out; to jump (e.g. into first place); to shoot (e.g. to the top); to come to the forefront
to turn over; to turn around; to change (one's mind); to reverse (one's decision); to fly (flag, etc.); to wave (skirt, cape, etc.)
to jump down; to jump off; to jump from; to jump out of
one by one; one after another; successively
luckily; blessedly; fortunately
severe wound; serious wound; gash
impediment; burden; encumbrance; hindrance; drag
to creep; to steal up; to draw near unnoticed
cover; mantle; shroud; hood
to tear off; to strip; to rob
living flesh; flesh and blood; physical body of Buddha or a bodhisattva
in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability
practitioner (of medicine, sorcery, fortune telling, etc.)
to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that
to kick about; to kick around; to scatter (a crowd, the enemy, etc.); to rout
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
(place of) refuge; escape; exit; way out; shelter; hiding place
limply; wearily; listlessly; languidly; exhaustedly; unenergetically
encirclement; encircling net; tight besiegement
inevitable; necessary; foregone; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
to carry in one's hand; to carry with one; to have on one's person; to take along (someone); to take (someone) with one; to be accompanied by
liver taken from a living animal
to pluck; to pick; to tear
order (esp. to a number of people); command; ritual of bowing at start and end of school class
lateral; sideways; (from) side to side
attack on both sides; pincer movement; double envelopment
holding a sword above one's head (kendo posture); haughty attitude; overbearing manner
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)