battle; fight; fighting; engagement; contest
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
army; armed forces; military authorities; team; group
to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops)
Suruga (former province located in the central and northern parts of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy
challenge; defiance; dare; attempt; try
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582.6.21)
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
unwillingly; grudgingly; shaking head in refusal (like a child); no!; no no!
type; kind; type (of person); (ideal) type; typewriter; typing
dramatic turn-around; major reversal; great comeback; game changer
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
(fighting) spirit; motivation; shout (for getting in the right mood to deal with something, etc.); cheer; kiai; short shout when performing an attacking move
for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; first time; (one's) first
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
to stop (in one's tracks); to come to a stop; to halt; to pause; to stand still
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) specially; separately; apart; additionally
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
reconciliation; make peace with
forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
how can (one) do something
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
properly; accurately; exactly; neatly; tidily; orderly
granny; grandma; gran; old lady; old woman
critical condition; being on the verge of death
to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow
to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
to lay the blame on; to put the fault on