jpdb beta

unbelievable; incredible; implausible

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of little importance; trivial; worthless; valueless

1

smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)

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Sendai (city in Miyagi)

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elegance; dandyism; sophistication; affectation; showing off; putting on an air

1

villa; daimyo's suburban residence

2

southern part; the south (of a region)

1

to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie

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taking turns on duty (esp. daimyo's retainers on duty in Edo)

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one's daily life; condition; well-being; standing and sitting; movements

1

to set off to advantage; to bring into prominence; to support; to favor; to rouse (spirits); to march (a prisoner) off

1

to disperse; to take a castle

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to settle (a dispute)

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circumstances

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hearsay; rumour

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to intend; to be sure that

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to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip

2

to show mercy; to show sympathy; to have compassion; to be kind

1

next year; following year

1

to instruct; to tell to do; to ask to do; to order

1

adhesion; conglutination; collusion; collusive relationship

1

confiscation of property (Edo period)

1

estate; homestead; house and land (it stands on); messuage

1

property; fortune; assets

1

forfeiture; seizure; confiscation; impounding

1

new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)

1

small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar; tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field

1

to dream (of)

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ambition; the Buddha's great vow (to save all people)

2

deep emotion; being filled with emotion

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to talk of one's dreams (esp. unrealistic, far-fetched ones); to dream out loud

1

utterly (unknown; esp. of someone's whereabouts); completely; (no information) whatsoever; at all

2

past middle age; nearing old age; near-elderly; age 40

1

Shinnosuke

3

to hand over; to transfer; to give up (e.g. one's seat); to give way; to yield; to concede

2

to pass; to pass by

1

nephew

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thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...

1

conjugal relations; conjugal affection

1

leaving one's seat (before an event is over); excusing oneself (from a meeting, conversation, etc.)

1

to make good use of one's spare moments; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)

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lifestyle; way of life

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various; many; several

1

account book; register; ledger

4

exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin

1

healthy; sound; wholesome

1

at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else

1

revamping; reshaping; rearranging; reorganizing

1

established practice; custom

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employee

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