senior high school student
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
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; small; 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; in any case; if one must ...
unwillingly; reluctantly; grudgingly; shaking one's head in refusal (like a child)
type; kind; type (of person); (ideal) type; typewriter; typing (on a typewriter)
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
success; achievement; succeeding (in life); (worldly) success; prosperity
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; making up (with); making peace (with); being friends again; patching up a quarrel
forever; eternally; for good; as long as one likes; indefinitely; endlessly
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
verification; confirmation; on-site inspection (by a judge, investigator, etc.) to gather physical evidence; verification
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