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enemy camp; enemy line

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isolation; being alone; being friendless

3

one's own ground; one's own position; one's own area of the field (soccer, rugby, etc.)

1

returning alive; surviving; reaching the home plate

1

demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire

15

bare hand; empty hand

4

wakizashi; short sword worn by samurai

3

martial arts which involve fighting without weapons; combat sport; one-on-one fighting sport

1

jujitsu (classical Japanese martial art, usually referring to fighting without a weapon); jiujitsu; jujutsu

23

art; technique; means; way; trick; trap

12

horseback; riding

5

from the beginning; without hesitation; flatly (e.g. refusing); entirely; completely

1

to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)

10

to make efforts; to take pains; to break a bone

1

companion; partner; other party; addressee; opponent (sports, etc.)

25

to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up

5

carotid artery

1

combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting

4

stirrup

1

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

34

Nanban trade; Japanese trade with Spain and Portugal (1543-1641)

11

(arch.) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (arch.) South-East Asia; (arch.) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions

4

trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)

7

bullet (from a rifle)

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valid; effective; yuko (judo)

5

one thin flat object; one sheet

4

iron plate; steel plane; sure thing; certain winner

2

weight; heavyweight boxer

1

highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly

5

domestic goods

1

old Japanese court music; gagaku

14

traditional music

1

tone color; tone colour; tone quality; timbre

2

traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes; free-reed instrument used in Japanese court music

2

the heavens; the skies; celestial sphere; heavenly realm; deva realm

1

exquisite voice; exquisite music

1

dragon flute; medium-pitched bark-covered bamboo transverse flute with seven holes, used in gagaku

1

to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to

5

dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook

16

echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit

1

small double-reed wind instrument used in gagaku (made of bamboo, with 7 holes on top and 2 below)

4

to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted

4

elegance; refinement; grace; aroma

1

to fill; to become full (of); to wax (of the moon); to rise (of the tide); to flow; to expire (of a period of time)

2

spirituality; spiritual nature

5

musical

2

sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)

7

starting point; origin; origin (of coordinate axes); datum point

6

Emperor Ingyou; Ingyou Tenno

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to play an instrument (esp. string instruments); to dance

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