end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
horse; horse racing; promoted bishop; knight (court card in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta)
close (e.g. of business); leaving (e.g. school); being outdone; compare unfavourably (with); closing price (stockmarket); sink mark (casting, moulding)
Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
Iyo (former province located in present-day Ehime Prefecture)
Matsuyama (city in Ehime)
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
castle town; city in Japan that developed around the castle of a feudal lord
to be buried; to be covered; to overflow; to be crowded; to be repaid (e.g. debt); to be replenished
Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
on the occasion of; at the time of
victory; triumph; win; conquest; success
near; close; close (in time); soon; close (relationship); friendly
to be called ...; to be referred to as ...
to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation
to stand (something) up; to put upright; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to let out; to raise (a cloud of dust, smoke, etc.)
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
enforcement; implementation; putting into practice; carrying out; operation; working (e.g. working parameters)
older brother; elder brother; brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband)
cavalry; cavalryman; trooper
rearing; training; nurture; cultivation; promotion
strongest ever; most powerful in history
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with
another (person); the other person; one more (person)
haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem
such ... as; or some such
type; style; mold; mould; kata (set sequence of positions and movements in martial arts); style (in kabuki, noh, etc.); convention
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
restorer of a dynasty; ancestor who rejuvenated a family