Taira no Kiyomori – Vocabulary list

嘆たん願がん

entreaty; appeal; petition

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助じょ命めい

sparing a life; clemency; reconsideration of an employee's dismissal

1

一いっ途とをたどる

to continue (going along some trend)

1

恵めぐみ

blessing; grace

1

躍おどり込こむ

to jump into; to rush into

1

かいがい

foreign; abroad; overseas

1

何なにがあっても

no matter what; whatever happens; in any situation; rain or shine

1

支ささえ合あう

to support each other; to support one another

1

閏うるう

embolism; intercalation

1

体たい現げん

personification; impersonation; embodiment

1

等ひとしい

equal; identical; the same; no different (to); just like; equivalent

1

やり残のこす

to leave undone

1

飲のまず食くわず

without eating or drinking

1

氷こおり

ice; shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)

1

あるまじき

unworthy; unbecoming; improper

2

生いき霊りょう

vengeful spirit (spawned from a person's hate); doppelgänger; co-walker; wraith

2

故ふるい

old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

1

庵いおり

hermitage; retreat

1

二ふた見み

forked (road, river)

1

長ながらえる

to have a long life; to live a long time

1

浦うら辺べ

seacoast

1

屋や

shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof

1

交こう錯さく

mixture; blending; complication; crossing; intersecting; interlacing

1

萱かや

grass used for thatching; sedge used for thatching

2

間けん

ken (6 shaku, approx. 1.818 m); counter used to number the gaps between pillars

1

溺でき愛あい

infatuation; adoration; blind love; doting (on a child)

1

能のう

talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)

1

国こっ家か

state; country; nation

1

まばゆい

dazzling; glaring; dazzlingly beautiful

2

墓ぼ前ぜん

in front of a grave

3

つくり直なおす

to remake; to rebuild

1

覇は

supremacy (over a nation); hegemony; domination; championship; victory

1

存ぞん分ぶんに

to one's heart's content; as much as one likes; freely; unreservedly; fully

1

翻ほん弄ろう

trifling with; toying with; playing with; tossing about (a ship)

1

珍ちん事じ

strange occurrence; unusual occurrence; unexpected occurrence; grave and unexpected occurrence

1

義よし時とき

Yoshitoki

1

ずるい

sly; cunning; sneaky; crafty; unfair; dishonest

1

生なま臭ぐさ坊ぼう主ず

degenerate monk; corrupt priest

1

縮ちぢめる

to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)

1

死し者しゃ

dead person; (the) deceased; (the) dead; casualties

1

悼いたむ

to grieve over; to mourn; to lament

1

備そなわる

to be furnished with; to be provided with; to be possessed of; to be endowed with; to be among; to be one of

1

荒あら武む者しゃ

daredevil; rowdy

1

約やく束そく事ごと

promise; vow; engagement; convention; rule; resolution

1

御ご家け人にん

lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods

4

高たか望のぞみ

aiming too high

1

無む理り強じい

forcing; compulsion; coercion; pushing (to do)

1

それどころ

(not) so much; (not) that much

1

如ごとし

like; as if; the same as

1

骨ほね休やすめ

relaxation; recreation; recess

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Vocabulary list: Taira no Kiyomori