My words

破竹

はちく

breaking bamboo

転ばぬ先の杖

ころばぬさきのつえ

prevention is better than cure, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, look before you leap, forewarned is forearmed, a stitch in time saves nine, have a walking stick ready before stumbling

打つかる

ぶつかる

to strike against, to collide with, to bump into, to conflict to encounter, to meet to clash

生業

せいぎょう なりわい すぎわい すぎあい

occupation, livelihood, calling

用心深い

ようじんぶかい

wary, watchful

途端

とたん

just (now, at the moment, etc.)

女怪

じょかい

female ghost, female apparition, female monster

疎通

そつう

(mutual) understanding, communication removal of blockage (esp. medical), drainage

虜囚

りょしゅう

captive, prisoner

渡り合う

わたりあう

to fight, to compete, to contest, to contend (with) to argue, to dispute heatedly

切り離す

きりはなす

to detach, to decapitate, to cut loose, to let loose, to dismember

物言い

ものいい

manner of speaking verbal argument objection, protesting a decision (esp. that of a sumo referee) rumor, rumour

拘束

こうそく

restriction, restraint, binding, constraint

儘

まま まんま

as it is, as one likes, because, as condition, state

半ば

なかば

middle, half, semi, halfway, partly

恭順

きょうじゅん

allegiance

連なる

つらなる

to extend, to stretch out, to stand in a row to attend, to participate in to enrol, to join

赦さ

Yurusa

forgiveness

踏破

とうは

travelling on foot, traveling on foot travelling all over

お節介

おせっかい

meddling, meddlesomeness, nosiness, interference, officiousness meddler, buttinsky, busybody

僭主

せんしゅ

usurper, tyrant

剣戟

けんげき

weapons, arms fighting with swords, sword fight

統べる

すべる

to control, to supervise

視認

しにん

confirm by sight, sighting, eyeballing

細腕

ほそうで

thin arm, slender arm slender means, meager ability to earn a living

首魁

しゅかい

forerunner, ringleader

親玉

おやだま

boss, chief, head

脱線

だっせん

derailment digression, deviation

夢見

ゆめみ

having a dream

曲がりなりにも

まがりなりにも

though imperfect, somehow, somehow or other