group (of people, competitors, companies, etc.); contingent; camp; team
survival; remaining; being extant; being left
using freely; making full use of; having a good command of; working (someone) hard; driving (someone) on
always; constantly; at all times; habitually
let me humbly say; most humbly; with all due respect
everything; anything; nothing
different opinion; objection
to go beyond the limit; to pass the limit
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
to lie face down; to lie flat (on one's stomach); to bend down (in submission); to bow down; to (crouch) and hide (behind); to conceal oneself; to lie down (and sleep)
to ask (humbly); to request (humbly)
old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly
to become slightly sweaty; to sweat a little; to become moist with sweat
to overturn; to capsize; to overthrow (government etc.); to reverse (decision etc.); to disprove (an established theory etc.)
resembling closely; being strikingly similar; bearing a strong likeness
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
accepting; consenting; agreeing; submission; compliance; agreement
such; like that; in that way
imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
awarding; conferment; granting; presentation
demotion; relegation; downgrading
both sides (on the left and right); both neighbours
Imperial Guard (Meiji); personal guard
to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit
to kneel down on one knee; to genuflect
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
on this occasion; now; in these circumstances; with this opportunity
far; distant; distant (past); remote (in time); distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone); far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.)
wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
to lower the curtain (at the end of a play); to come to an end; to finish
bold; audacious; impudent; unashamed; unabashed
to declare; to assert; to say bluntly; to say straight out
in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run
to be the worst of the worst; (lit.) to deserve to die ten thousand deaths