薙 - mow down (the enemy)

naginata; polearm with a curved single-edged blade (similar to a glaive)

Kusanagi no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia); grass-mowing sword

sweeping sideways; mowing down

to mow down; to cut down; to slash (horizontally); to make a clean sweep; to sweep away; to brush away

art of using a naginata

to cut down (grass, etc.; by swinging a sickle, scythe, etc.); to mow

streaked shearwater (species of seabird, Calonectris leucomelas)

petrel (esp. petrels of family Procellariidae)