pride; dignity; self-respect
concentration; diligence; asceticism; zeal in one's quest for enlightenment; adherence to a vegetarian diet
closing one's eyes; passing away; dying peacefully
throwaway; disposable; single-use
(arch.) archer (esp. a samurai); (arch.) (skilled) archer; (arch.) bowman; (arch.) dominion of a whole province by a military family; bow-twirling ceremony at the end of a day of sumo wrestling
suddenly seeing the light; achieving full enlightenment all of a sudden
to get cracked; to develop a crack; to be fissured
practice; practising; training; study
to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
arrow with feathers that curve to the left (the first of two arrows to be fired)
unification; union; oneness
important; significant; precious; valuable; careful
anyway; anyhow; at any rate; in any case
practice; training; drill; (an) exercise; workout
performance; take; game; season; penetrative vaginal sex (with a prostitute); unsimulated sex (in an adult movie)
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
to distort; to strain (interpretation); to force (meaning)
passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage; passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing
to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach
to bend one's head slightly to one side; to look slightly doubtful
most of all; extremely; supremely
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
end; limit; bounds; extremity; result; fate
journey; route of a journey
to pose a riddle; to hint (at); to drop a hint
(arch.) bracelet (made of stringed jewels or bells and worn at the elbow); bracer (for the elbow of an archer)
thereafter; after doing that; followed by
farewell; be that so; in that case; (arch.) however; (arch.) though that may be the case
from here; from this place
to proceed with; to continue with; to move on; to go forward; to pursue
classic (work, esp. book); the classics
although; but; even though; I wish that
before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to