jpdb beta

(not) even; (not) any

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middle period; medium-term

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military science; strategy; tactics

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Daidouji Yuuzan (1639-1730)

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try to be; want to be

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New Year's Day

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soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)

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congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present

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suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally

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chopsticks

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taking; taker; last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day; active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration); emphatic or formal prefix

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first; new

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New Year's Eve; December 31

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evening

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up through; up until; down to; from ... to ... (e.g. from head to toe); everything from ... to ...

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every evening; night after night

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vine; bine; bow; temple arm; connections; contacts

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to serve; to do

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martial arts; military arts; Bushido

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original intention; initial resolution

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Saga (city, prefecture)

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Bushido; samurai code of chivalry

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to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with

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every morning

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plainly; clearly; vividly

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to imagine; to envisage

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training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices

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to appease; to suppress; to calm

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plane (woodworking tool)

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spear; lance; javelin; lance; (arch.) jeering

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long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)

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to pieces; into shreds

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wave; ups and downs

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to kill (with a weapon); to defeat an opponent; to get someone out; to arrest; to take prisoner

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large fire

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to jump in; to dive in; to fly in; to rush in; to dash in

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thunder and lightning

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to crush (with the weight of misfortune)

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height; stature; length (esp. of clothing); all (one has); everything; magnificence (of a waka poem, etc.)

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Chinese fan palm (Livistona chinensis)

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precipice; cliff; bluff

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laziness; indolence; misfeasance; nonfeasance; kausidya

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writing down what one hears; account of what one hears

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peace; tranquility; tranquillity; (arch.) happy-go-lucky

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to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated

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shogunal vassal; direct retainer of a shogun

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unconnected; weakly related; alien; having little prospect of marriage

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Satsuma and Chōshū (clan alliance)

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to scatter in all directions (like baby spiders)

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author (usu. of a particular book); writer

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