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Gentoku

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indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

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imperial envoy; imperial messenger

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indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

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bribe; sweetener; douceur

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indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

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refusal; rejection

1

good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result

2

Imperial Court

2

at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for

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imitation; fake; phony; pseudo-

1

petition; complaint; (legal) brief

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to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)

1

Chouhi

2

one's store of patience

1

beginning; start; clue; lead; thread end

1

to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)

1

to knock down; to beat up (till unable to stand)

1

Metropolis (of Tokyo); (Tokyo) Metropolitan District; counter for cities and towns; capital

3

the capital (esp. Kyoto)

5

(the) positive; yang (in Chinese divination); the open; visible place

5

politics; government

1

decomposition; putrefaction; putrescence; corruption; degeneracy; decay

1

despair; hopelessness

1

three people

1

brother-in-law; stepbrother; sworn brother

1

faith; fidelity; loyalty

1

to penetrate; to sink in; to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively; to do throughout (e.g. the night)

1

government service; official position; civil service

1

to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign

1

to leave the government service

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Yellow Turban Rebellion (China; 184 CE)

1

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)

5

years later

1

China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)

2

at; in; at; when; by; with; and then

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again; once more; a second time

2

insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising

1

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)

61

to follow in succession; to happen one after another

1

to occur; to happen

2

this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence

2

too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as

20

ten; 10; ten years of age

32

usual state of things

32

warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (arch.) man in attendance (on a person of high standing); (arch.) retainer

32

if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question

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to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)

1

eunuch

2

pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)

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