jpdb beta

intimacy; friendship; familiarity

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imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action

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hard to do

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pattern; design; body build; figure; essential qualities; character

2

with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names

1

entirely; completely; all; nothing but

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to be mixed up with; to have a connection with (a troublesome matter); to be a stickler about; to be finicky about (some triviality); to take part (in some work); to hang about

1

scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful

1

gynecologist

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one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)

1

to begin talking; to open up

1

quality; value; nature; inherent quality; logical quality

1

a little; some; somewhat; amount; quantity; number

1

rhetorical flourishes

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exaggeration

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cannot be helped; unavoidable

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family; relatives; dependents; household

2

many thousands

3

hectare (2.471 acres)

1

vast; extensive; immense; huge; large; grand

2

farmland; rice field or paddy

1

owner; proprietor; possessor (e.g. of talent, beauty, etc.)

3

middle period; medium-term

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head house (family); birthplace; originator

1

head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host

3

House of Peers (Japan, Meiji constitution); House of Lords (UK)

1

member of an assembly; member of the Diet; member of parliament; member of Congress

2

companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)

2

how long; how far; how much

1

anecdote; common talk

1

Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)

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the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period)

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marriage; matrimony

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feudal lord

1

(one's) superior; (one's) boss; the higher-ups

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warrior; samurai

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family of Shinto priests serving a shrine on a hereditary basis

1

large temple

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to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan

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powerful family; powerful clan

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to take the profit over the fame

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descendant

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to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that

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hundreds

2

countless; incalculable

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tenant farmer

2

the relation of master to servant

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servant; employee

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to send in

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gents; gentlemen

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