jpdb beta

to be needed; to be wanted

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worry; concern; anxiety; care; help; aid

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money; metal

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to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress

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come; come now; well; who knows; well now; let's see

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I'm sorry to have kept you waiting

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to live through; to survive

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Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568 CE); Sengoku period; Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE); era of vicious competition

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person of culture; cultured person

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after that; afterwards; thereafter

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dismissal (from a post); discharge; removal

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to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve

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one year; some time ago

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to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into

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to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

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tonsure; shaving one's head (upon entering the Buddhist priesthood)

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to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem

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seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to; in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that

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to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)

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myself; oneself; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you (referring to one's inferior)

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sinful; wicked; immoral

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

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

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country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)

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sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading

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bell (often globular)

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nembutsu; nenbutsu; nianfo; visualizing a Buddha (in one's mind)

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waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

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to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem; to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone

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to entrust; to leave to a person

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watching (esp. during an emergency); being on alert; guard; watchmen

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patronage; protection

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downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction

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daimyo in the Warring States period

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to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along

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military service; serving in a war; taking part in a campaign

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army; armed forces; military authorities; team; group

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mountain castle

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precipice; cliff; bluff

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moat; fosse; canal; ditch

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deep; profound; dense; thick; close (relationship); intense; strong

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to be called ...; to be referred to as ...

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castle construction; building a castle; fortification

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to be based in (a place)

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(weather) front; front line; forward area; action zone

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invasion

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earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)

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to unfold; to unroll; to open

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offense and defense; offence and defence

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to go around; to return; to surround; to concern (usu. of disputes)

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