painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
tragic but brave; heroic; grim
battle; war; fight (against time, poverty, etc.); struggle (for freedom, survival, etc.); contest; competition
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
absolutely; positively; decidedly
one day; all day (long); the whole day; first day of the month
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; used for soft emphasis or to soften a statement or request; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.
handed-down order; issued instruction; word of command
to let out a cry; to shout
to raise (a sword, fist, etc.); to lift; to throw up; to fling up; to swing up
to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress
clanging; banging; throbbing (headache); pounding; fully; vigorously
pale; pallid; bluish-white
electricity; (electric) light
crackling; cracking; clapping; incessantly (blinking)
hearth; fireplace; furnace; kiln; young girl; childlike young woman
to be hideously burned; to be burned raw
battlefield; battleground
that night; that evening; over the course of the evening
to leave; to depart; to take one's leave
early evening (usu. from 3pm to 6pm); dusk
six o'clock; six periods of a day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening, midnight, late night)
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate
delivering an order; dispatch of an order; messenger; orderly; runner
(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy
tooth; teeth; tooth (of a comb, saw, etc.); cog; support (of a geta)
urgent; pressing; immediate; urgently; promptly; at once
under (influence, control, conditions, etc. of); during (war, occupation, etc.)
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
Mount Yari (Nagano Prefecture)
next (year, spring, etc.); coming; since (e.g. last month); for (e.g. 20 years)
sumi; India ink; squid ink; octopus ink; carpenter's inking string
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)