encouragement; promotion; inducement; incitement; stimulation
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
cooking, esp. frying or stir-frying; heating; tempering; -ware
stormy and full of drama; many drastic events in the course of events; full of ups and downs; with many vicissitudes
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that
early evening cloud; clouds at sunset
fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)
possessing full mastery of an art (e.g. Judo); initiation into the secrets (e.g. of an art); full mastership
begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)
to be enthralled by; to be disguised as
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
style; manner; way; after (period of time) again (e.g. meeting again after a year); for the first time in (period of time)
Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo
future (usually near); prospects
to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge
carapace; shell; 1st in rank; grade A; instep; back of hand
congratulation; celebration
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant
extinction; discontinuation; severance; rupture; to become extinct; to cease to exist
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
overturning; capsizing; overthrow (e.g. of a government)
seal of blood; sealing with one's blood
form; shape; state; condition; letter; correspondence
strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern; Naruto (city in Tokushima); Naruto Strait; Naruto wakame
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for