jpdb beta

here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up

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bribe; sweetener; douceur

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denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like

6

writing; painting

2

buying; purchasing; laying in

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to use up; to exhaust; to wear out

1

please; somehow or other; one way or another

1

care; precaution; guarding; caution

1

to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)

1

steward; butler

1

money; cash

1

buyer

1

to make; to manufacture

2

to palm off; to force a sale

1

your native country; your hometown; my home country (i.e. Japan); countryside; country; (arch.) daimyo's territory (Edo period)

2

goods; article; thing

1

to cease; to desist; to cut it out; to lay off (an activity); to drop (a subject) to abolish; to resign

2

copy; duplicate; facsimile; transcript

2

vassal; retainer

2

barony of the first degree; influential feudal clan

3

ronin; lordless samurai

1

(leading) someone by the nose

2

mostly involve; principally involve

1

to write out; to make a fair copy; to rewrite

1

member of shogun's council of elders

2

to hand over; to surrender

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Oohara Shigetomi (1801.11.21-1879.4.1)

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nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets

1

selfish; self-indulgent; arbitrary

5

Chikugo (former province located in the south of present-day Fukuoka Prefecture)

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water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout

1

following a text word by word (e.g. when translating)

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scorched earth

3

extreme; extremity

2

inconvenient; inexpedient; unfavourable; wrong; improper; objectionable

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(arch.) poor; (arch.) unskillful; (arch.) clumsy; I; me

3

audience (with a superior, e.g. nobility)

2

real intention; true motive; true meaning

1

to ask; to inquire; to implore (a god for an oracle); to seek direction (from your superior); to visit; to speak to (a large crowd at a theatre, etc.)

1

proposal; offer; request; application

1

wisdom; jnana (higher knowledge)

5

to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple

1

to cause harm (to)

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peerage; court rank

3

oral statement

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one roll; one book; one volume; first volume; rolling once; wrapping once around

1

scroll; rolled book; scarf; muffler; sushi made rolled in nori seaweed with a core of filling

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(full) name; family name and given name

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to carry in one's hand; to carry with one; to have on one's person; to take along (someone); to take (someone) with one; to be accompanied by

3

return present; return gift; something done in return (as way of thanks); retaliation; revenge

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