playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
bad person; villain; scoundrel; wrongdoer; wicked person
extra; more; unnecessary; needless; all the more; even more
sure to ...; certain to ...; bound to ...; it's natural that ...
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
to exert oneself and win; to gain (victory)
to wait eagerly for; to look forward to
(husked grains of) rice; staple (product, etc.); necessity
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy
great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty
Kanazawa (city in Ishikawa)
gaining total control (of people or counties); suppression; oppression; control; mastery; ascendancy
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
anger; rage; resentment; indignation; exasperation
regarding; in; to; towards; with regards to
fort; fortress; stronghold; fortification
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
to hold out (e.g. against an attack); to hang on; to withstand; to endure; to last
raft; forearm protector; skewered baby-eel kabayaki
river; stream; River; the ... river
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
close associate; close aide; brains-truster
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
too much; excessively; too
far away; distant place; long ago; far back; by far
near; close; close (in time); soon; close (relationship); friendly
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
suffix for familiar person
urgent; requiring quick (response)
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)
cannot be helped; unavoidable
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
aloneness; loneliness; solitude