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temple (Buddhist)

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history of Japan; Japanese history

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the whole country

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to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)

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Kennyo

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Jōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect); True Pure Land School

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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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military commander

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Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist uprising (Muromachi and Warring States periods)

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(not) in any way; (not) at all; (none) whatsoever; what kind of

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something worthy of comparison; something being compared

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spirit; psyche; god; deity; divinity

3

compelling; using duress

1

statesman; administrator; politician; policymaker

3

cold reception; inhospitality

1

persecution; oppression

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reverence; awe; respect

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unceasing; relentless

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system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship

1

raising one's hand; show of hands (e.g. for a vote); salute

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to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)

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Emperor of Japan

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(political) administration; political power

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Heike family; Taira family; The Tale of the Heike; chanting of the Heike Monogatari

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

1

advantage; benefit; profit; interest

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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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to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through

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to change

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the imperial line

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samurai; warrior; military family

1

commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the barbarians; great, unifying leader

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in form; ceremonial; for form's sake; pro forma

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vassal; retainer

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Meiji Restoration (1868)

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new government; new administration

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reverence for the emperor; advocate of imperial rule

1

centripetal force; unifying force; cohesive power

1

while in class

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the Imperial Family

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rare; seldom

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existing; living; extant

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the oldest

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extinction; discontinuation; severance; rupture; to become extinct; to cease to exist

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dynasty

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compared with

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change of government; regime change

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rooting up (weeds, etc.); eradication; rooting out; stamping out

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Chinese history

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foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese

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