jpdb beta

to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops)

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route; road; distance travelled in a day; one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s)

1

armed forces; military; troops

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north; the North; northern territories; North Korea; (arch.) north wind

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north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku

4

conquest; subjugation; overcoming; chastisement; punishment; punitive expedition

1

to perform; to do; to conduct oneself; to carry out

6

vortex; maelstrom; whirlpool; (in the middle of a) scandal; controversy; quarrel

1

after

2

hearsay; rumor; grapevine

1

July; seventh month of the lunar calendar

1

wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza

1

summer

2

easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...

1

to fly about; to flutter about; to flit about; to fly past each other

1

to listen carefully; to strain one's ears

1

several months

1

style; manner; way; after (period of time) again (e.g. meeting again after a year); for the first time in (period of time)

1

every person; each one; everybody

1

a long time (since the last time); first in a long time

3

to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death

1

what to do

5

blunder; bungle; gaffe

1

easy; simple; there's no way that ...

1

tremendous strength; (lit.) strength of a hundred people

1

left foot; left leg

1

Utsunomiya (city in Tochigi)

1

to run around; to bustle about; to busy oneself

1

vexing; irritating; impatient

1

war situation; progress of a battle

1

refreshing; exhilarating; invigorating; bracing

1

front line; forefront

1

river; stream; River; the ... river

12

to take back; to recapture

1

(weather) front; front line; forward area; action zone

1

to approach; to draw near

1

difficult to ...; hard to ...

1

to grow weak; to become weak; to lose strength

2

or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean

2

to mellow (e.g. personality); to be rounded; to huddle; to cower

1

change of heart; change of mind; change in mental state

1

deep down; special place in one's heart; in the back of one's mind

1

whether one likes it or not; inevitably; unavoidably; compulsorily; by force

1

to thrust before; to thrust at

1

one's last moment; one's death; one's end

9

seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

3

decapitation; beheading; firings; dismissals; small samurai sword used for decapitation

2

decapitation; decapitated head

4

execution; death by execution

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(criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence

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