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Emperor Toba; Toba Tenno (1103-1156 CE, reigning: 1107-1123 CE)

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empress (consort)

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to serve; to work for; to attend

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passionate; ardent; enthusiastic

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imagination; supposition; guess

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to stir up; to poke (the fire); to beat (an egg); to arouse (interest, feelings, etc.); to stir; to stoke

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eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality

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modern times; the modern age; this day and age

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to overflow; to brim over; to flood

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really; truly; very; extremely; exceedingly; sincerely

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to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do

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sense of humor; sense of humour

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comical (story, song); comic; the comedy business (rakugo, manzai, etc.); something laughable

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program (e.g. TV); programme

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overflowing; flood; inundation; oversupply; plethora; abundance (esp. of something undesirable)

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prime minister; chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); premier

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general policy speech; speech held by the Prime Minister of Japan at the start of a special or extraordinary Diet session

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from the beginning

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to the end

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deadly serious; deadly earnest

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everywhere; all over the place; here and there; at every turn

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wit

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to be rich (in); to abound (in); to be abundant (in); to be rich; to be wealthy

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whole house; whole audience

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laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)

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to dash over oneself (e.g. water); to take (e.g. shower); to bask in (e.g. the sun); to suffer (e.g. an attack); to draw (e.g. criticism, attention, praise); to have heaped upon

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United Kingdom; UK; Britain; England

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nature; disposition; temperament; qualities; attributes; talents

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use; adoption; acceptance; appointment; employment; engagement

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crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch

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to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of

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disaster film; disaster movie

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just barely; only just; at the very limit; at the last moment

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last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period

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to corner; to drive to the wall; to run down; to track down; to chase after

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joke; jest; funny story

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to loosen; to slacken; to relax (attention, efforts, etc.); to let down (one's guard); to relax (a rule); to ease (e.g. restrictions)

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blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings

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to burn hotly; to burn redly; to lose one's temper; to get mad; to be upset

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if I (we, etc.) could; if one were to ... then ... (an unpleasant thing would happen)

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to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol

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point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead

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great war; great battle; world war

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to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with; to be equivalent to

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to find; to discover; to come across; to be used to seeing; to be familiar with

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Heike family; Taira family; The Tale of the Heike; chanting of the Heike Monogatari

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family; relatives; dependents; household

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military forces; army; troops; number of soldiers

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to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin

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Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari); the Minamoto family

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