jpdb beta

to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...

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to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)

2

door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows

4

to wrench open; to prize open; to pick (lock)

1

hey!; oi!; ahoy!; I; me

4

government forces; loyalist army

5

weapon; arms; ordnance; weapon (something used to gain an advantage); asset

1

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

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won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you

1

time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity

7

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

4

Kumamoto (city, prefecture)

6

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

3

civil war

1

Satsuma Rebellion (1877)

1

until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to

10

to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to

2

Saigou Takamori (1828.1.23-1877.9.24)

1

to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops)

1

Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture); sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

3

army; armed forces; military authorities; team; group

1

opposite; opposition; versus; vs.; to (e.g. "winning a game five to three"); equal footing

1

government forces; government troops

1

that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...

10

biggest; greatest; largest; maximum

1

site of a bloody battle

1

to become; to amount to

2

field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness

2

slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark

2

to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to

10

case; situation

5

there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you

1

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)

12

near; nearby; not far off

1

ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet

3

name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext

3

district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period)

2

spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence

5

riches; wealth; resources; lottery

5

village

4

situated deep in the mountains

1

settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony

1

for generations; hereditary; generation after generation

1

brewing; distilling; wine-making

1

to run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)

1

to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become

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old family; old-established family; one's old home; one's childhood home

1

house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name

3

to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen

12

first cry of a newborn baby

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