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four (long cylindrical things)

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peafowl (incl. the male peacock, female peahen, and young peachick)

3

tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one); tattooing

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hair style; coiffure; hairdo

1

parabolic antenna

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certain; one; (arch.) I; (arch.) me

3

to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way

4

limit; bound

2

wild beast; wild animal; brute

1

to glare; to dazzle; to glitter

1

sparkle of one's eyes; insight; discernment; penetration

1

to surge; to well up; to gush out

1

to shine; to look slightly upward (of a noh mask; indicating joy, etc.)

1

who; what kind of person

2

to allow (someone or something) to come near; to let get close

1

wild; growing wild; living in the wild; (arch.) I

1

living thing; living creature; animal; life

1

to draw a sword

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to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)

1

roost; nest; pad; crib; one's home

1

shortest distance (to)

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to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for

2

empty stomach; hunger

1

unluckily

1

true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses

1

swordsman; swordswoman; fencer

4

Auber; Aubert

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disciple; pupil; follower

1

to catch sight of; to see; to suppose; to assume from appearances

1

agency; commission; reception (of guests); conveyance (of messages)

1

to do something in readiness for; to get something (needful) done

1

step; stride; counter for steps

1

there being no use in arguing (about it)

1

to cross one's mind; to occur to one

1

interval; distance; suitable time; appropriate opportunity; distance between opponents (kendo)

2

right hand; right-hand side; right-hand direction; (on) the right

2

to grasp tightly

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left hand; left-hand side; left-hand direction; (on) the left

3

Shouken

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pommel

1

handle; grip; holder; person who holds

1

edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)

1

to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on

1

shh!; sh!; shush!; shoo!; go away!

1

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)

1

average; medium; mid-grade (item); regular grade; same level as; equal to

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defense; defence; safeguard; protection

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unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to

1

bringing certain death; deadly; knockout (blow)

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hah (derisively); pooh; pfft (of something disappearing); poof; huff; puff

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