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essence; quintessence; flower; glory

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evasion; avoidance

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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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Tokugawa shogunate (i.e. the Edo shogunate, 1603-1867)

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maintenance; preservation; improvement

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rivalry of local warlords; a number of powerful (talented, influential) persons standing by themselves in a given field

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feudal system; feudalism

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troubled times; turbulent times

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authoritarianism

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to inherit; to succeed; to take over

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political organisation

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(your) business; (your) concern; (customer's) order; official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.); arrest; capture

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Confucian scholar

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to impose; to visit upon; to inflict

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when it comes to the cause; when you get right down to it; as for what started it; as for the reason; originally

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selfless (pious, righteous) man

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loyal retainer

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Genki era (1570.4.23-1573.7.28)

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Tenshō era (1573.7.28-1592.12.8)

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Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate

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archery and horsemanship

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loyal retainer; loyal subject

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Yoritomo

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good and evil; purity and impurity; voiced and unvoiced consonants

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favour; favor; obligation; debt of gratitude

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to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)

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to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge

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if it is the case that ...

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friend; companion

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how; in what way; how about; questionable

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to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)

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advantages and disadvantages; interests (of parties)

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friendly feelings; fellowship

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to pledge; to vow; to promise; to have sexual intercourse (esp. between husband and wife); to share a bed

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intention; aim; design

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Takauji

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disobeying the emperor's order

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pledge; vow; (of a man and woman) having sexual relations; having sexual intercourse; destiny; fate

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Hachiman (God of War); Hachiman shrine; (arch.) certainly

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bodhisattva; one who has reached enlightenment but vows to save all beings before becoming a buddha; High Monk (title bestowed by the imperial court); title bestowed to Shinto kami in manifestation theory

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Kamakura shogunate (1185-1333)

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dead letter

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regent to the shogunate

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Tokiyori

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master and servant; lord and retainer; employer and employee

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right and wrong

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must not; should not; do not

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to command; to order

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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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standing together in a disorderly fashion; standing close around; crowding together; flooding in (applicants, election candidates, etc.)

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