thorny shrub; wild rose; briar; thorn; cusp
handsome youth (male); pretty boy
isolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception; deprivation
to become aroused (of emotions, nerves, etc.); to become excited; to become stirred up; to be proud; to be haughty; to be pompous
violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism
living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet
stylish; smart; with a crack; crisply (e.g. fried, starched); tearing off; ripping off
to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light
millennium; one thousand years; (fig.) long time
thirst for blood; bloodlust; determination to kill
joy; delight; rapture; pleasure; gratification; rejoicing
life; life force; lifetime; lifespan; most important thing; foundation
to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute
protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
cover; covering; cover song; cover version; coverage; to compensate for (a loss)
to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off
in person; personally; directly
to stand in the way (esp. with legs spread out); to block the way; to stand in the way (e.g. of progress); to obstruct
long and large; tall and large; grand; huge
whip; lash; scourge; stick; cane; rod
provocation; stirring up; arousal; excitement; stimulation
practice; practising; experience
to challenge (esp. in a lawsuit); to take on an opponent (in negotiations, contest, etc.)
snakelike; snaky; serpentine
to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm
to freeze to; to be frozen to; to freeze in place; to be still
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
to peel off and fall; to flake away
nine; nine years of age; twelve o'clock (old time system)