jpdb beta

talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)

1

new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)

1

state; country; nation

1

to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up

1

indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!

2

to be helpful; to be useful

1

family or person with samurai ancestors

2

now is the time

1

government; administration

1

everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly

3

to clasp; to grasp; to hold (the answer); to have (e.g. the solution); to seize (power); to hold (the reins)

1

should; must; -able; probably; likely

2

abolition; elimination; extinction; discontinuation

1

substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange

1

prefecture (Japan); county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (France); province (Italy, Spain, etc.)

2

to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire

2

plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place

1

relation; connection; affinity

1

nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible

3

human being; human; person; character (of a person)

1

as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...

3

to send in

1

and; thereupon; because of that

1

samurai; warrior; military family

2

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

2

most; much; greatly

1

to finish; to end; to close

1

meaning; called; said

2

knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes

2

bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely

3

where; which; anyway; anyhow; sooner or later; eventually

1

denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like

1

second

1

restoration of imperial rule; (in English history) the Restoration

1

to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher

1

200; two hundred

1

warrior; samurai

4

job; work; duties; trade; skill

1

to lose; to miss (a change, opportunity); to lose (a loved one); to be bereaved of; to concede (goals, points, etc.)

1

indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged

2

great mountain; large mountain

1

may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

2

to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant

1

exemplar; model; example; pattern

1

(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy

1

undertaking; underwriting; acceptance

1

abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures (1871)

4

(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)

1

failure; mistake; blunder

1

to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do

1