jpdb beta

wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect

2

going to war; departure for the front; departure for military service (in response to a draft)

1

job; work; duties; trade; skill

6

honor; honour; glory; (arch.) prosperity

1

formality; social rules; social status; social standing; (arch.) amendments and enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)

2

indifferent; unconcerned

1

up to now; so far; traditional; conventional; usual

5

at first; in the beginning; originally

1

defeating barbarians (esp. the Emishi); conquering barbarians

1

commander-in-chief; Taishōgun; one of the eight gods of the koyomi

1

family positioned to accede to the shogunate

3

pre-existing; already there; conventional

1

supremacy

2

general; shogun

3

official title; name of one's job

1

Yoritomo

1

source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root

1

system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series

5

prototype; model; pattern; archetypal

1

custom; practice; convention; precedent

1

Heike family; Taira family

3

earthenware pot (used as a decanter); jar; jug

1

condition; state; health; state (of health); way; manner

1

Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537-1597.10.9), Shougun 1568-1573

2

to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study

2

flight from one's country; seeking asylum; defection; emigration (for political reasons); (going into) exile; becoming a (political) refugee

2

to leave behind; to misplace; to forget

1

western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki); western nations (esp. India or Europe); thirty-three temples in the Kinki area containing statues of Kannon (Avalokitesvara); pilgrimage to the thirty-three temples sacred to Kannon

1

living off (a person); sponging off; parasitism

1

Shouzan

2

udo (plant related to ginseng, used in medicine and cooking) (Aralia cordata)

1

point; essentials; gist; summary; fundamentals

1

adopted child

1

name; title; appellation; (under the) pretext (of); pretense

3

good story; heartwarming story; good prospect (e.g. marriage, business)

1

life in exile

1

splendid; fine; praiseworthy; creditable; legal; legitimate

1

mansion; residence

1

declining; refusal; rejection; announcement; notice

1

being reduced to poverty; living in poverty; coming down in the world; straitened (reduced) circumstances

2

responsible position

1

upstart; parvenu

1

seat of honor; seat of honour

1

free-loader; hanger-on; parasite; house guest

1

ancestor; forefather; foremother

1

honour; honor

1

living by selling off one's possessions

1

humanity; empathy; kindness; human nature; common sense; customs and manners

1

independence; self-reliance

1

old clothes; secondhand clothing

1