feeling great (refreshed)
friendly; affable; amiable; sociable; loving company; (animals) taking kindly to people
field; plain; hidden interior part (of a structure or object); wild (of an animal or plant)
to bloom; to flower; to blossom; (arch.) to rise up (of breaking waves)
affinity; feeling of closeness (with someone); feeling of kinship
to interfere (with); to hinder; to be hindered (from doing); to become impeded; to have difficulty; to suffer inconvenience
last week; the week before
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
absorption; giving undivided attention; devoting oneself (to)
pish; pooh; I see; oh; indeed
template; run of the mill; formulaic
(having) bad marks or results (e.g. in school); of poor quality or workmanship
from one's side; from the side (of something); from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved
with a click; with a snap
to roll up; to enfold; to swallow up; to involve; to drag into
match (contest); matching (with); going well (with)
grief; sorrow; extreme sadness; heartbreak
to thrust at someone (e.g. a weapon); to point (a gun, knife, etc.) at; to hold up threateningly to (someone's face); to present forcefully (demand, document, etc.); to confront someone with (evidence, facts, etc.); to force upon
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore someone's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task
fanfare; flourish of trumpets
(attacking and) sinking (a ship); sending (a ship) to the bottom; crushing defeat; utter failure; complete exhaustion; collapsing (onto a bed, desk, etc.)
dramatic; exciting; touching; extreme
daring; fearless; intrepid; bold; tough
fantasy; illusion; vision; dream
yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it?
national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate
around the world; throughout the world
Empire of Japan (Japan's official name under the Meiji Constitution)
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
to ask for directions; to ask the way