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強気: 18 Terms and Phrases

ミサイルのように人に向けられ、効果的な手ごたえを意図した強気の発言
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

家の中では強気になって威張り散らすが、外では意気地が無くおとなしい人間のこと。
The phrase describes a person who is bullish and bossy inside the house but weak-kneed and subdued when outside the house.

この間、浄土真宗の懇願を受けて三成に強談判し、教如の帰洛を助けたという強気な逸話も伝わっている。
There is a strong anecdote that he assisted Kyonyo to go back to Kyoto with his strong protest to Mitsunari during this time to meet the request of Jodo Shinshu (the True Pure Land Sect of Buddhism).

この間、京大坂滞在中の幕府幹部は兵6万の武力を背景に一層強気になり、長州再征等のことを朝廷へ迫った。
Among this time, the executives of the shogunate who stayed in Kyo-Osaka became more aggressive based on the power of the sixty thousands soldiers there, and they pressed the Imperial Court regarding the punitive re-expedition to Choshu.

しかしながら、その後、鉄火肌と相俟って、男気（おとこぎ）のある「弱気を助け強気を挫く」ような者を指すようになった。
Later, however, the meaning of tekka denbo was combined with that of tekka hada to describe manly men who help the weak and crush the powerful.

だが家康は自身の非を認めながらも強気な態度を示し、本来法度を破った家康側から大坂城の秀頼・利家の下に挨拶に来るべきであったが、それを頑なに拒み続けた。
Although Ieyasu admitted his own mistake, he showed an aggressive attitude, and strictly speaking, Ieyasu who violated the laws ought to have come to Osaka-jo Castle to greet Hideyori and Toshiie, but he kept on refusing to do so obstinately.

同日赦免された長州藩兵が入京したこともあり、大久保は強気に出るが、京都には会津藩・桑名藩などの徳川方諸藩の兵も駐在しており、戦闘回避を求める声も強かった。
Although Okubo was acting in a strong attitude, gaining momentum by the return of samurai of the Choshu clan to Kyoto just discharged on the same day, there existed a strong call to avoid war from soldiers of Aizu Domain, Kuwana Domain and other domains on Tokugawa side, residing in Kyoto.

（現代語簡訳：戦前は義仲に「武士らしく強気になれ」と助言をし、戦中は死を共にしようとする義仲に「疲れているのだから潔く自害しなさい」と冷静にアドバイスをし、義仲が自害する時間稼ぎをした。)
(Brief translation in modern Japanese: Before the battle, Kanehira advised Yoshinaka to 'raise his spirits like a warrior,' but when Yoshinaka tried to continue fighting in the battle until his death, Kanehira calmly advised him that he should commit suicide bravely because he was too exhausted to fight any further, and gave Yoshinaka enough time to kill himself.)

いっぽう、13日に大阪城に戻っていた慶喜は、16日にはイギリス・フランス第二帝政・オランダ王国・アメリカ合衆国・イタリア王国・プロイセン王国6国の公使を引見し、王政復古後も外交権が自らにあることをアピールするなど、強気の姿勢を崩していなかった。
Meanwhile, after returning to Osaka Castle on 13, Yoshinobu had audiences with ministers of six countries; Britain, Second French Empire, the Netherlands, the United States of America, Italy, and Prussia to appeal that he still held the diplomatic right even after the Restoration of Imperial Rule, showing no sign of softening his stance.