jpdb beta

very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point

5

to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart

2

thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)

2

my; one's own; I ...; one ...

3

to tighten; to stiffen; to brace; to strain

2

powerful; strong; forceful; reassuring; encouraging

3

implication; hidden meaning; latitude; atmosphere; tone; sentiment

1

to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate

11

inside one's heart; in one's mind

3

to be enthusiastic about; to be eager; to be keen

1

farmer; peasant; farming; the common people

8

to attack; to assault; to assail

4

territory; dominion; grounds (e.g. school)

3

to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check

2

to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent

9

to own; to receive; to understand

1

from now; from the present moment; from this time forward; henceforth

6

ten years; decade

6

with great vigour; in leaps and bounds; (lit.) with the force of surging waves

1

appropriate; adequate; suitable; fitting; worthy

2

fellow; mutual; companion; comrade

11

provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime

1

person killed in action; the war dead

1

eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo

2

ekayana (doctrine that only one teaching, usu. the Lotus Sutra, can lead to enlightenment)

1

house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building

1

Kakukei

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Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537-1597.10.9), Shougun 1568-1573

1

getting closer; drawing nearer; being not much different; being near (age, skill, etc.); becoming close (i.e. friendly); becoming intimate

1

that year; same year; same age

1

proceeding to the capital

3

Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)

2

invasion

1

to hunt out; to flush out; to round up; to impress; to recruit

1

to supplement; to make up for; to compensate for; to cover (a shortage, loss, etc.); to fill (e.g. a vacancy)

2

to grapple with; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to come to grips with; to work hard on

1

subject; theme; homework; assignment; task; challenge

1

conviction; belief; confidence

5

planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)

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rotation of crops

6

two crops a year

1

paddy field; farm

22

seed rice

4

curtain; bunting; act (in play)

1

form; tense; adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)

1

seedbed; nursery; seed-plot

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rice nursery; bed for rice seedlings

2

(logical) true; regular; 10^40; ten thousand undecillion; original; positive

5

muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line

5

frame; framework; border; box; limit; restriction; category

5