jpdb beta

locational advantage; advantageous position

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home area; home town; local

4

to kick about; to kick around; to scatter (a crowd, the enemy, etc.); to rout

2

slaughter; massacre

1

productivity

1

to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)

2

really; truly; indeed; good grief

1

anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case

1

before one's eyes; under one's nose; immediate (e.g. interests); present; foresight; near future

6

Kanto; region consisting of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures; Kanto; north-eastern half of Japan (during the feudal era)

1

to sell out; to sell widely; to sell on a large scale

1

Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)

42

barbarian tribe; savage tribe

1

doing whatever one pleases

1

bonze; monk; monk's dwelling; boy; son; I; me

8

government service; the bureaucracy

5

I don't know about ... but; it may be possible for ... but

1

easy; simple; plain

2

slaughter; massacre

1

to do someone in; to bump someone off

1

threshold (esp. one with grooves for sliding doors); sill

1

battle; fight; war; struggle; conflict

3

truth

4

incitement; sedition; agitation; abetting

4

to meet; to assemble; to congregate

1

(following a verb) to be sure to; to do (something) so that ...; to make sure to; to try to

3

reduction and exemption (e.g. taxes); mitigation and remission (e.g. in criminal law)

1

(United States of) America; USA

1

regarding as important; attaching importance to; taking a serious view of; putting emphasis on

1

small quantity; small amount; narrowmindedness

1

to demand gratitude; to do something for someone in order to create an obligation of gratitude from that person

2

where; what place; how much (long, far); what extent

7

good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial

4

glacial period; glacial epoch; glacial era; tough period; drought (of opportunities, jobs, etc.)

1

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

1

grain-producing region

3

or; either ... or ...

1

silver (Ag); silver coin; money; silver medal; silver colour; silver color; bank

17

to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on

3

in a sense; in some way; to an extent

3

coexistence; living together; symbiosis; paragenesis

2

just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street

2

the north; northward; northern direction; northern part (e.g. of a country); northern district

1

shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext

3

proximity; nearness; soon; nearby

1

far away; far off; far; long ago; long before

1

eyes sparkling; with shining eyes; for one's eyes to gleam

1

without

2

that; the matter in question

4

to go around spreading (news, rumors, etc.); to cry about; to circulate; to broadcast

1