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Houjou Sadatoki (1271-1311)

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Yoritomo

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anciently; formerly; old times; a long time ago

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to inherit; to succeed; to take over

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ancestral; hereditary; generation after generation; passing from father to son

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extraordinary; special; exceptional; non-standard grammatical construction; ungrammatical usage; solecism

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suguha; straight temper line (on a sword)

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figure; design; twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes; style (of writing); figure (of speech); design

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judgement; judgment; connoisseur

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special selection; finest pick; top pick

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successive generations; successive emperors

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to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create

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Muromachi period (1333-1573)

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school; sect; party

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Dewa (former province located in present-day Yamagata and Akita prefectures)

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or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options); ... or ...; as soon as; right after; while still

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stinginess; miserliness; parsimony

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cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless

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20 years old

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to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase

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to begin to appear; to begin to come in

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officer

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allegiance; obedience; submission

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chronic

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sudden; abrupt; rapid; sharp; drastic; radical

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crops; agricultural produce

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filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)

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relation; connection; affinity

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relative

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one's relatives by blood and marriage (in blood and law); one's kith and kin

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kudzu (Pueraria montana); Japanese arrowroot; Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)

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to apologize; to apologise

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reluctantly; unwillingly

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young lord; successor of one's current lord

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damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very

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they; those guys

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sympathy; empathy; response

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noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky

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rather; better

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to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen

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foreigner; stranger; outsider; alien

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violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism

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on the other hand

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considering something taboo; treating something as taboo

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to go through; to pierce; to penetrate; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out; to persist with

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change; transformation; innovation; Reformation

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(arch.) straight; ordinary; common; doing nothing

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old age

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complaint; troubles; objection; grievance

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haughty; arrogant; supercilious

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