My Japanese is rudimentary at best, but isn’t issho related to issho ni meaning “together”? And what about the practice of saying gambatte kudasai before exams—“please do your best”? Maybe the Japanese have as many ways of describing effort as they do to describe the circumstances of death.
My Japanese is rudimentary at best, but isn’t issho related to issho ni meaning “together”? And what about the practice of saying gambatte kudasai before exams—“please do your best”? Maybe the Japanese have as many ways of describing effort as they do to describe the circumstances of death.