phantom; vision; illusion; extremely rare item
to cause trouble (for someone); to annoy; to bother; to inconvenience
waking up; awakening; arousal; disillusion; disillusionment; awakening
secretly; in secret; unseen; unobserved; inwardly; in private
to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp
tearoom; tea house; tea-ceremony room; tea arbour; tea arbor
hornworm (caterpillar of a hawk moth); (hairless) caterpillar
to wriggle; to writhe; to squirm; to scrawl
polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful
to force someone to clamp with their teeth; to force into someone's mouth (e.g. a gag); to wedge into a space; to inflict (a blow); to deal (a hit); to pull (a joke)
cry (esp. animal); roar; chirp; tweet; bark; whine
to live (of animals); to inhabit; to nest
anthropoid ape; anthropoid; ape
to go pale; to grow pale; to lose color; to turn white
severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous
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 sink deeply into one's mind; to come home to; to go to one's heart; to pierce one's body (e.g. of wind, cold, etc.)
lack of ability; inadequacy; (being) out of one's depth
beyond one's control; nothing one can do
teacher; instructor; teaching staff; faculty member
to call together; to convene
to drug (someone, food, drink)
round-up (e.g. of criminals); wholesale arrest; catching the whole herd with one throw
art; technique; means; way; trick; trap
to be reminded of; to call to mind
grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive
to fall into someone's hands; to pass into another's possession
to disturb; to upset; to ruffle; to stir up; to mess up
outsider's perspective; as seen by an observer
to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.); to relate; to tell of; to show; to indicate
substantial; real (as opposed to nominal)
to fall into ruin; to be desolated
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
public order; public peace; public security; law and order