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splendid horse; promoted bishop

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everyone; everybody; all; everything; all

5

to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at); to be intimidated; to feel daunted

2

don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...; wow

4

Keiō era (1865.4.7-1868.9.8)

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

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June; sixth month of the lunar calendar

1

pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix

7

indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

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only; merely; but; no more than

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indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question

134

Chōshū; (former) Nagato Province

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army; armed forces; military authorities; team; group

6

together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

2

battle; war; fight (against time, poverty, etc.); struggle (for freedom, survival, etc.); contest; competition

1

10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various

2

shogunate; bakufu; shogun's headquarters; Imperial Guards office; residence of the Imperial Guards commander

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indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

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repulse; repelling (e.g. the enemy); driving back

1

indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...

140

be; is; isn't it?

71

outsider; one not included in the favored group; outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo

1

one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start

1

han (estate of a daimyo in the Edo and early Meiji periods); feudal domain; fief; province

14

like; similar to; something like ...; someone like ...

1

at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of

74

to lose; to be defeated; to give in (to); to yield; to be inferior (to); to be second (to)

3

there is no way that ...; easy; simple

3

war; battle; campaign; (arch.) troops; (arch.) forces

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already; yet; soon; shortly; further; more

7

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

7

to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)

9

scissors (in rock-paper-scissors)

1

I'll; let's; probably

1

too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as

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will not do; do not; does not

3

at; in; at; when; by; with; so

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how; in what way; by what means

1

to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up

1

intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation

1

restoration of imperial rule

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argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise

1

(political) administration; political power

5

return; giving back; giving up; relinquishing; surrendering

2

be; is

14

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

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road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)

3

to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)

1

indicates emphasis, intention, etc.

14

sound of a gunshot; report of a gun

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