Yamagata Aritomo (1838.6.14-1922.2.1)
Satsuma and Chōshū (clan alliance)
Katsura Kogorou (1833-77)
Kido Takayoshi (1833.8.11-1877.5.26)
offense and defense; offence and defence; batting and fielding
oath; pledge; pact; covenant; alliance
hope; white hope; person of promise
position in a game of go or shogi; state of the game; aspect of an affair; situation
change; conversion; transformation; transformation
failure; poor result; disfavour; disfavor; unpopularity
to gather strength; to take heart
to pave the way; to put in motion; to put on the road (to)
Sanjō Sanetomi (1837-1891)
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
Shinsengumi; Edo period police and military force dedicated to suppressing anti-shogunate activities
meeting up; gathering; assembly; set
bureau director; office chief
to roar; to reverberate; to be well-known; to be famous; to palpitate; to throb
to rally; to make a comeback
to be in a hurry; to be impatient; to be anxious (to do); to get a fright; to panic; to get flustered
Hamaguri Gomon incident (1864 clash between pro and anti-shogunate forces)
to claim victims; to cause casualties
cunning and wickedness; cunning and wicked person
payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing
to strike back at; to bite back; to turn on; to rise against; to oppose; to defy
imperial command; government order
responsibility; duty; obligation
lengthy military expedition; Long March (China, 1934-1936); Long March (series of Chinese launch vehicles)
yielding; submission; surrender; giving way; succumbing
Western Europe; the West; the Occident; Europe
revolution; rotation; turn; turning; inversion; handspring (gymnastics)
Tokugawa Iemochi (1846.7.17-1866.8.29), Shougun 1858-1866
assistance; backing; reinforcements
consecutive defeats; series of defeats
threat; intimidation; menace