jpdb beta

to straighten oneself

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tea gathering (for the tea ceremony); some matter concerning tea; family tea gathering held in memory of deceased ancestors

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command; lead; generalship; leadership

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young person; youth; young

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quietly; slowly; gracefully

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tea ceremony; Way of Tea

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(bearing a) close resemblance; vivid reminder (e.g. of the past); dim; faint; vague

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greeting; a fine thing to say

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Oryou

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asking; enquiring; searching; looking for

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to think, feel, consider, know, etc.

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as far as I know

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lots of; a ton of; a mountain of; piles of; heaps of; so many

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in turns; in series; in number order; by rotation

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to do over; to remake; to resume

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attention; kind attention; courteous attention

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aunt; old lady; ma'am

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to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up

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proud

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to show respect for; to revere; to honour; to honor; to worship; to hold in esteem

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Tokugawa

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world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign

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to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to go out of fashion

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black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market

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arrival of ships (from abroad); arrival by ship

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warrior; samurai

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national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

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tide; current; tendency; trend

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from long ago; from old times; from time immemorial

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annoying; provoking

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name; title

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expectation; anticipation; purpose; intention; others' opinions of one; speculation

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abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures (1871)

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major powers of the world; great powers

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to stand, walk, etc. shoulder-to-shoulder; to be on a par with

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beyond one's means or position

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running fast; double time; cantering; doing things in a hurry

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the rise of the curtain; opening (of play); beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)

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western style or fashion

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to praise extravagantly; to lionize; to lionise; to make much of

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to scorn; to despise; to hold in contempt; to look down on; to disdain

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sudden change; upheaval

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plunge basin; waterfall lake; plunge pool; basin under a waterfall

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(flower) petal

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Asia

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colonization; colonisation

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Europe and America; the West

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detonation by contact; contact detonation; touching off (something); triggering; sparking

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to sit in a row; to be arrayed

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enrich the country, strengthen the army (Meiji era government slogan)

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