place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
eager; earnest; ardent; OFF (on switch)
thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
soft sound; dampening (of sound)
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of
to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent
disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
study of foreign languages; linguistics
funny; amusing; strange; odd; improper; unsuitable
military system; military organization; military organisation
taste; elegance; appearance; air; the likes of ...; lowly people such as ...
to cut into (a conversation); to interject
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
bow and arrow; weapon; arms
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not
person who is ignorant of the real world; (lit.) frog in a well
100,000; hundred thousand
land near a castle; castle town
Nagano (city, prefecture)
substitution; material; price; margin (e.g. for stapling, etc.); area required for something; (arch.) shiro (unit of land area equal to one-fiftieth of a tan; approx. 19.83 m.sq.)
town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares
house where one was born; one's parents' house
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
establishment; foundation
God; god; ace; king; superior person
(religious) faith; belief; creed
to collect; to assemble; to gather
to carry on one's shoulder; to shoulder; to bear; to bear (burden, responsibility, etc.); to take upon oneself
young person; youth; young
imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era; patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation
influence; effect; to influence; to affect; to have an influence on
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause
science and technology; scientific technique
zealous; enthusiastic; ardent; fervent; keen; eager
study; research; investigation
development; exploitation
to be called ...; to be referred to as ...
foreign; abroad; overseas