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political disturbance; political change; change of government; political upheaval; overthrowing of a government; coup d'état

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extreme passion; wild enthusiasm

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strategy; artifice

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creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention

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aloof; proudly independent; standing apart; solitary

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temporarily; short period; once; one morning

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twenty-eighth day of the month; twenty-eight days

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Genji and Heike clans; two opposing sides

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battle; fight; fighting; engagement; contest

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Kiyomori (shogun)

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to resist; to defy

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Yorimasa

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Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)

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Yoritomo

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great (i.e. great-grandson, great-grandmother)

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Yoshinaka

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Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari); the Minamoto family

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one party; one faction; one clique

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Mochihitoou

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simultaneous; all at once

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raising an army

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(trend of) the times; current of the times; spirit of the age

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Mt. Hiei (in Kyoto)

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Enryaku era (782.8.19-806.5.18)

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abbreviated form of a Chinese character; simplified character; acronym; abbreviation

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warrior monks from Enryaku temple at Mt. Hiei in Kyoto

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priest soldier; warrior monk

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in everything

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conflict; strife

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vortex; maelstrom; whirlpool; (in the middle of a) scandal; controversy; quarrel

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in the fire; in the flames; (arch.) burning (something)

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various countries; various regions; various provinces

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uprising; revolt

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broom

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Kiyomori

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normally; habitually

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open; public; official; overt

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disorder; confusion; violence; outrage; riot

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ball (for sport, games, etc.); kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan

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left-handed

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to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)

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respect; esteem; regard

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expressly; especially; taking the trouble (to do); intentionally; deliberately

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Kaneyasu

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ought to have been; was ... right?; to do for (inferiors)

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interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt

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vassals; retainers; followers

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to marry (a woman); to take to wife; to take in marriage

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to kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.); to slice (off); to lop (off); to cut (off)

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monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook

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