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old enemy; longtime enemy; arch-enemy; traditional rival; longstanding foe

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Heiji era (1159.4.20-1160.1.10)

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revolt; rebellion; war

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bloody; gory; covered in copious amounts of blood; desperate; frantic

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dispute; resistance

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to unfold; to unroll; to open

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Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari); the Minamoto family

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ruler; leader; consul

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heir; eldest son

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source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root

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Yoritomo

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uncle

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mother-in-law; foster mother; stepmother

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sparing a life; clemency; reconsideration of an employee's dismissal

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entreaty; appeal; petition

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to take someone's life; to kill someone

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exile; banishment

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given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...

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to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to record (e.g. a fact); to retain

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to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show

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tyranny

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to be unable to let pass unnoticed; to be unable to be indifferent; to be unable to just watch (without doing anything)

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Mochihitoou

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raising an army

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high fever; pyro-

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will; resolution; kindness; goodwill; gift (as a token of gratitude)

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middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly

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to leave word with (a person); to state in one's will; to leave (something) unsaid; to forget to mention

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in front of a grave

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to rise in revolt; to raise the standard of revolt

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to be ungrateful

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curse; malediction; hex

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several years; a few years

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later on; subsequently; by and by; after a while

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inlet; seashore; beach

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all things must pass; all worldly things are impermanent

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even the prosperous inevitably decay; sic transit gloria mundi; all that's fair must fade

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reason; logic; sense; natural way of things

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... all over again (repeating the same failure)

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exactly opposite (of)

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Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543.1.31-1616.6.1), Shougun 1603-1605

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lord; master

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to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)

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orphan; child left by the deceased; abandoned child

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Toyotomi Hideyori (1593.8.29-1615.6.4)

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Battle of Sekigahara (1600)

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to make one's own; to take possession of

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gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees

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to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal

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Hideyori

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