admiration; wonder; astonishment
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
accommodation; reception; seating; custody (e.g. awaiting deportation); internment; admission
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
to walk; to move forward; to make progress
following (in the footsteps of); catching up with; coming level with
back (esp. of a building, etc.); rear; behind
poultry raising; poultry farming; chicken farming
farm (livestock); stock farm; ranch; pasture; meadow; grazing land
source of river; fountainhead
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
royal capital; imperial capital
to drift (to); to be washed ashore
a few years ago; some years back
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
duty; obligation; responsibility
people (of a country); nation; citizen; national
grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man
to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
to carry on one's back; to burden oneself (e.g. with debts, responsibilities, etc.)
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
leader; guide; mentor; coach
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
surely; certainly; no doubt; indeed
work; labor; achievement; performance; salary; income
effect; result; worth; use; avail
out of character; unlike one
ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
strangeness; abnormality; disorder
stone wall; dry wall; rocky cliff; stone precipice
at regular intervals; evenly spaced
torch (made of pine, bamboo, reed, etc.); flambeau; torchlight
work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty
grinding; polishing; refining (skill, knowledge, etc.); striving to master something
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext