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Ukishima

1

Asai Hisamasa

1

Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency; NISA

1

honor of seeing (a person); honour of seeing (a person)

1

deadlock; stalemate

1

Oichinokata

3

Oichi

7

Asai Nagamasa

2

rule over the whole country

2

to capture a fort

1

one's present existence; this mortal frame; this world; cast-off cicada shell; cicada

1

tea container (usually for thick tea used at the tea ceremony)

1

mistress; kept woman; concubine; (arch.) close female servant

1

Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant

1

Suma

2

farewell poem; death poem; poem written during one's final moments

1

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; METI

1

Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)

3

exceedingly; extremely; exceptionally; unexpectedly

1

test of patience; battle of wills; endurance contest

1

the whole day; all the day

1

all; everyone; everybody; everything

1

Fukui prefecture (Hokuriku area)

1

bodhi; enlightenment; happiness in the next world

2

castle tower

1

Chikuzen (former province located in the west of present-day Fukuoka Prefecture)

2

do ...

1

raising an army

1

sound of a gun; roar of cannon

1

surrender (fall) of a castle

2

to bathe; to receive (an honor, etc.)

1

reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...

2

knowing

1

hosing down; drainage; discharge of water; spraying with water

1

to pitch camp; to set up camp

1

hell on earth; living hell

1

glaring at each other; confrontation; standoff; face-off

1

to destroy

1

shout

4

to fight with swords; to cross swords

1

Fukui (city, prefecture)

1

legal wife (of a noble) (as opposed to a concubine); room for receiving guests; heir; successor

1

after one's death

1

Sakuma

2

(arch.) lowly person; (arch.) lowliness; I

1

to tie; to fasten; to hitch; to secure (trust, patronage of customers, etc.); to keep (an employee, someone's interest, etc.); to save (someone's life)

1

war cry; roar

1

to settle (a problem)

1

interruption (e.g. of a conversation)

5

life

1