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ignominious defeat; crushing failure; utterly beaten; overwhelming defeat

2

first 10 days of the month

1

territory (pre-Taika: under the Yamato court; Heian: under a provincial governor, etc.); (arch.) countryside

9

even if nothing else; more than anything else

1

ballad; folk song; popular song

2

speech and behaviour (behavior)

1

martyrdom

1

to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)

2

want; shortage; famine

1

Kii (former province located in present-day Wakayama and southern Mie prefectures)

2

relaxation (e.g. of muscles); becoming flaccid

1

slack; looseness; play

1

each; respectively; individually; separately

1

if you ask me ...; as for ...

1

Shinshū (alt. name of former Shinano province)

2

Nobeoka

1

declining; refusal; nonacceptance; turning down; withdrawal (e.g. of candidacy); pulling out (e.g. of a race)

2

Taiwan

1

medical care; medical treatment

3

efficacy; effect

1

desire; wish; request; entreaty; prayer; (written) application

2

being filled with; being full of; permeation

4

war expenditures

2

paying one's own expenses

2

Ouchi

1

Fukuchi Gen'ichirō (1841.5.13-1906.1.4)

3

first year; early years (of a reign or era)

3

Tōkyō Nichinichi Shimbun (1872-1943, became the Mainichi Shimbun)

1

editor-in-chief

1

flight; desertion; escape

1

dispersion; scattering; spreading out; diffusion

1

decline and fall; ruin; downfall; collapse

6

modus operandi; criminal technique; trick

1

viewing as ...; seeing as ...; treating as ...; regarding as ...

2

heavy damage; great harm

1

forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain (Edo period); change of constituency (politician); change of district

2

descriptive (narrative) part

1

interest (on a loan, deposit, etc.)

2

middle of a month; second third of a month; 11th to 20th day of a month

1

doubt; distrust; suspicion (of)

1

dictatorship; despotic government

2

to build (a nest); to nest; to haunt (a place); to hang out (somewhere)

1

negligence; neglect; carelessness; procrastination

1

twenty-second day of the month; twenty-two days

2

convenience for transportation; convenience of access (by road or rail)

1

to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!

1

way; route

2

crying out; proclaiming

4

frail; slender; feminine

1

to save; to rescue; to help; to assist; to support (financially); to contribute (to)

1