to negotiate (with someone about); to talk over (something with); to tackle someone (about); to throw on each other; to splash (water) on each other; to pour on each other
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
to avoid (physical contact with); to avoid (situation); to ward off; to avert; to put aside; to move out of the way
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
system where all students live in dormitories; residential system; boarding system (e.g. boarding school)
senior high school; high school
(art of) fencing; swordsmanship
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
different opinion; objection
to disappear; to vanish; to go out (of a fire, light, etc.); to die; to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.); to vanish (e.g. of hope); to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness)
accepted; fully-fledged; clear; respectable
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
heir; heiress; inheritor; successor
instructor; (fencing) teacher; model
plans; arrangement; schedule; program; programme; expectation
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
nothing but; none other than
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)
accompanying; travelling together; traveling together; same bank
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
splendid; nice; sufficient; fine (in the sense of "I'm fine"); well enough; OK
dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)
bamboo sword (for kendo); bamboo fencing stick
that kind; competition; match
once in a while; occasionally; seldom; at long intervals
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
state; state of affairs; appearance; look; sign; indication
sense of distance (physical or emotional); feeling of distance
growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (somebody) for advice
general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different
at this stage; at this point; now (contrasting with the past)
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
to be too numerous; to be too much
to recall; to remember; to recollect
sword skills; swordsmanship