ridge on the side of a sword blade; ridged pattern
footwork; mobility; flexibility; adaptability
even; indicates something unexpected occurs
Shuhari; three stages of mastery: the fundamentals, breaking with tradition, creating one's own techniques
babysitting; babysitter; protecting; keeping; keeper
(in gagaku or noh) middle section of a song
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
first Sanskrit alphabet letter; Africa; Awa (old province of Japan); (arch.) prefixed to names to show intimacy
more and more; increasingly; extremely; very
to be remembered; to go down in history
speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green; recruiting of university students before the agreed date
to think of; to come up with
authorization; authorisation; acknowledgment; acknowledgement; certification; recognition
the front (of a battlefield); forefront
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
appearing together; co-acting; co-starring
breakthrough (research, etc.); breach; opening
opposite side; other side; other party
here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up
horizontally; flat; across; crossways; crosswise
to cross; to go across; to go through; to cut across
wounded person; injured person
grip (of hand); grip strength
failure; abortive (attempt, action)
automatic translation machine
high efficiency; high performance
stranding; running aground
to be extremely cautious; to be as sure as sure can be; to make assurance doubly sure
object representative of a divine spirit; object to which a spirit is drawn or summoned; object or animal occupied by a kami
suggestion; hint; implication
mediation; agency; carrying (germs, diseases, etc.); transmission; mediation
assumption; supposition; hypothesis
to stimulate; to stir up; to arouse
bamboo shoot; inexperienced doctor; quack
frost columns; ice needles