large country; major nation; great power; province of the highest rank (ritsuryō system)
greedy; avaricious; covetous; raga (desire)
to boil; to seethe; to roil (e.g. waterfall, torrent); to foam; to well up (of emotions); to overflow (e.g. fighting spirit)
whole nation; whole land; whole country
stillness; rest; being stationary; standing still; coming to a standstill
to pin (someone) down; to hold down; to shut out (one's opponent); to keep (the opposing team) from scoring; to suppress; to control
base (military, expedition, etc.); enthusiast; maniac; fanatic
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
exhausted; worn out; battered (esp. of clothing); worn out; (boiling) to a pulp; to a mash
to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)
impassioned speech; fervent speech
joining (a group, team, etc.); enrollment; enrolment
to run into; to rush into; to (run and) seek refuge in; to take shelter in
just like that; quite so; I agree; that street
to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be stumped; to be nonplussed; to wince; to shrink back
nothing special; no big deal; doesn't matter
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion
triumphant return; returning in triumph
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
to nail (to something); to nail down; to bang (e.g. one's head); to knock; to throw (at a wall, on the floor, etc.); to fling (at)
to make one's name well known; to gain much fame
young person; youth; young
to begin a trip; to depart; to embark; to die; to pass away; to depart this life
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
collapse; break; cave-in; market decline; market crash
accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons
to lose (through death; e.g. a wife, child)
person working for someone else (followed by job title); hired
before ... days (months, etc.)
miko; shrine maiden; young girl or woman (trad. an unmarried virgin) who assists priests at shrines; medium; sorceress; shamaness
being in love with each other
to be pregnant; to be with child
one may well say so, but ...; even more than
religion; religious affiliation; belief; religious activity
to be reduced to (e.g. poverty); to end up as
to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)
sensitive; fragile; feeble; indecisive