KATANAGATARI 2

1 踊山 ODORIYAMA “Dancing Mountain” fictional

2 絶対凍土 ZETTAI TŌDO “totally frozen land” vs. 絶対零度 ZETTAI REIDO absolute zero (kelvin)

3 水無月 MINAZUKI “month of water” sixth month of the Japanese lunar calendar

4 氷点下二十二度 HYŌTENKA NIJŪNIDO -7.6 degrees Fahrenheit

5 壱級災害指定地域 IKKYŪ SAIGAI SHITEI CHIIKI uses old script 壱 for “one” but cheekily anachronistic

6 背に腹は代えられない SENI HARA WA KAERARENAI “can’t give up your belly for your back”

7 姦計 KANKEI (usu. evil) plot 姦 KAN coerced or illicit sex (女 ON’NA woman 3x)

8 完璧に書き換えられ KANPEKI NI KAKIKAE RARE “be perfectly overwritten”

9 氏素性 UJISUJŌ provenance, lineage 氏 UJI clan 素性 SUJŌ “source nature” birth, origin

10 特殊な一族 TOKUSHU NA ICHIZOKU a special/peculiar tribe

11 一子相伝 ISSHI SŌDEN (an art) handed down to only one child

12 批判、ないし非難 HIHAN, NAISHI HINAN criticize, or denounce

13 漏洩元 RŌEI MOTO source of leaked information

14 剣幕 KENMAKU “sword curtain” purported to derive from 険悪 KEN’AKU fierce

15 肝要 KANYŌ what matters most 肝 KIMO liver; guts 要 KANAME pivot

16 生き様 IKIZAMA way of going through life

17 とぼけて TOBOKETE playing dumb

18 取らぬ狸の皮算用 TORANU TANUKI NO KAWAZANYŌ “peddling the skin of a tanuki one has yet to trap”

19 やせ我慢 YASE GAMAN “skinny perseverance”

20 蝕む MUSHIBAMU eat away at

21 腹積もり HARAZUMORI “stomach is ready”

22 雪女 YUKI ON’NA “snow woman” vs. 雪男 YUKI OTOKO “(abominable) snow man”