striding; swaggering; strutting; lording it over others; acting as though one owns the place; throwing one's weight around
manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act (usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit)
Nakazato Kaizan (1885-1944)
popular entertainment; mass entertainment; public amusement
Osaragi Jirou (1897.10.9-1973.4.30)
Kurama tengu; the tengu of Mount Kurama
red ball; amber; (arch.) patent medicine; brand of sweet wine
to make a splash; to evoke a response; to meet with a reaction
change in appearance; transformation
Murayama Kaita (1896.9.15-1919.2.20)
movie director; film director
free and easy; open and natural; not fastidious
lyricism; description of one's feelings
sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable
binding (of a book); design (of a book cover)
yukata (light cotton kimono worn in the summer or used as a bathrobe)
Great Depression (1929-1939)
military shoes; combat boots
to push on; to plunge forward; to push one's way to
ninja; person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan
ninjutsu; combat and stealth techniques used by ninja for espionage, sabotage, assassination, etc.
hostile party; enemy side
to steal or sneak or slip into
enemy territory; hostile place
force; unit; corps; squad; troops; party
to practice magic; to practise magic
children and grandchildren; posterity; descendants
art of stealth (i.e. ninjutsu)
certain; sure; definite; reliable; sound; solid
provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime
night attack; nocturnal assault
stealth; travelling incognito (traveling); ninjutsu; ninja; sneak theft; sneak thief; tolerance