to encourage; to cheer; to raise (the voice)
audience (with a superior, e.g. nobility)
to prepare; to provide; to set up; to establish; to organize
courtyard; quadrangle; middle court
wildly enthusiastic; crazy (about something)
reliance; trust; faith; confidence
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice
motherland; fatherland; native country
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all
ring; circle; hoop; wheel; circle (e.g. of friends)
absolutely; positively; decidedly
incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; crown; diadem; top kanji radical; first verse of a haikai, etc.; best; peerless
to plunder; to grab; to snatch
peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled; mowing down the enemy
to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
several people; some people; a few people; a number of people
all (there is); as long as there is
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
to swing; to wield (physically); to exercise (e.g. power, ability); to exhibit; to flourish; to prosper
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
wild enthusiasm; being crazy about
climax; peak; zenith; apex
to reach; to get to; to arrive at
to yell out loud; to shout loudly; to cry aloud; to scream loudly
banzai; hurray; something to cheer about; something worthy of celebration; giving up; throwing one's hands up
heat; hot air; enthusiasm; excitement; fever
door-to-door manzai; form of comedy originally performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up; to absorb; to soak up
private room; single (room); room for one; (toilet) stall
to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled
chair; stool; post; office; position
mincing; chopping finely; short and repeated (movements) (e.g. trembling, stepping quickly); gradual; bit by bit
to stand; to rise; to find oneself (e.g. in a difficult position); to depart (on a plane, train, etc.)
post; official position; managerial position; executive position
to fall off; to tumble down