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to take action; to start; to get started; to begin to do

2

narrow; small; confined; narrow-minded; intolerant

1

shooting; sniping

1

few days

1

preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; being stranded; grounding

1

practical use; application; conjugation; inflection

1

straight; directly; voyage; journey; straight road

1

bridgehead; beachhead

2

old castle; old fortress

4

country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)

1

Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane)

1

Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people

2

castle (in place names); castle; fortress

1

to have authority over; to exercise one's authority (over); to glare; to scowl at; to glower at

1

mountain castle

1

castle site; ruins of a castle

1

hypothesis; supposition; assumption

4

coexistence

1

water transportation

26

to project; to stand out; to jut out; to go somewhere (e.g. for work); to proceed to; to leave for

1

aquatic; on the water

2

navy (esp. the Japanese navy prior to the 1850s)

4

to take more time than expected; to take a long time; to be delayed

3

arrangements; plan; programme; program; preparations

3

decision; agreement

1

watchful waiting; careful supervision

3

plan; scheme; intention; project; design

3

to be urgent; to be pressing; to be imminent

1

being extremely busy; being swamped with work

2

to all appearances; no matter how you look at it

2

control of the sea; command of the sea

1

to make good use of one's spare moments; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)

1

to comb back

1

to be dark; to be dull; to be unassuming; to be inconspicuous; to not stand out

1

solar panel

3

to fall into (someone's) hands; to fall under someone's control; to become someone's property (e.g. of an object)

5

blue cloth; blue ground; blue background

1

Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi (heavenly gathering of clouds sword; one of the three Imperial regalia)

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Susanoo-no-Mikoto (deity, younger brother to Amaterasu)

2

Miyazaki prefecture (Kyushu)

1

birthplace; origin; cradle; motherland

1

legitimate; orthodox; traditional

1

descendant; posterity; offspring

1

origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material

4

Yamato; (ancient) Japan

4

all over; everywhere; in every nook and cranny

1

to govern; to manage; to subdue

1

creation; birth; formation; naissance; construction

1

to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into

3

elitism; idea of being part of a chosen people

1