jpdb beta

to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe

1

good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result

4

like this; this sort; this way

2

sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)

1

imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000

7

town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares

2

chaos; confusion; disorder; chaotic; confused; uncertain

1

to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case

3

this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")

20

evening; night; dinner

1

incident; affair; happening; event

1

year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

3

to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to

1

world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign

2

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)

55

finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)

1

collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration

1

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work

25

small; little; tiny

1

omen

1

no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than

1

theme; topic; subject matter; motif; project; slogan

1

music

1

this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence

10

Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period

1

sword (esp. a large, double-edged one); blade; bayonet; swordsmanship; stinger; ovipositor

2

to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use

4

to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); to scatter; to be dispersed; to disappear; to dissolve; to spread

1

to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk

9

end; conclusion; last; final; no sooner than; once

5

warrior; samurai

11

pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)

4

story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend

1

money; metal

6

gold (Au); golden (color); valuable; of highest value; money; gold coin; Friday

1

four thousand; 4,000

2

both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold

4

honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix

2

to make use of; to lend money

1

to do

3

only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to

11

to be silent; to say nothing

1

to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to interpret; to understand

2

conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation

3

to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding

9

wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do

2

somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of

1

be; is; did; (have) done; please; do

31

Genji and Heike clans; two opposing sides

1

dispute; strife; quarrel; dissension; conflict; rivalry

1