Jiten beta

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

夜(よる)

x1 | Rank #417

evening; night ; dinner

も

x77 | Rank #7

too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence) ; both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence) ; even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than ; even if; even though; although; in spite of ; further; more; again; another; the other

更(ふ)ける

x1 | Rank #25,205

to get late; to advance; to wear on

頃(ころ)

x1 | Rank #613

(approximate) time; around; about; toward ; suitable time (or condition) ; time of year; season

高家

x1 | Rank #65,432

Taie ; Takaie ; Takake ; Takaya ; Takibe

筆(ひっ)頭(とう)

x2 | Rank #9,257

brush tip ; first on a list ; head; chief

吉良上野介

x1 | Rank #92,883

Kira Kōzukenosuke (1641-1702)

屋(や)敷(しき)

x1 | Rank #1,828

residence; estate; grounds; premises; mansion

を

x140 | Rank #3

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.

名(な)

x4 | Rank #432

name; given name ; title ; fame; renown; reputation ; pretext; pretense; justification; appearance

赤穂

x1 | Rank #50,714

Akao ; Akaho ; Akoo

浅野

x1 | Rank #10,753

Asano

家(け)

x3 | Rank #645

house; family

旧(きゅう)臣(しん)

x1 | Rank #82,950

old retainer

たち

x9 | Rank #124

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

が

x153 | Rank #4

indicates the subject of a sentence ; indicates possession ; but; however; (and) yet; though; although; while ; and ; used after an introductory remark or explanation ; regardless of ...; whether ... (or not); no matter ... ; indicates a desire or hope ; softens a statement ; indicates doubt ; indicates scorn

襲(しゅう)撃(げき)

x1 | Rank #3,496

(surprise) attack; assault; raid; charge

主(しゅ)君(くん)

x1 | Rank #11,824

lord; master

内匠

x1 | Rank #70,096

Uchishou ; Uchitakumi

頭(あたま)

x2 | Rank #259

head ; hair (on one's head) ; mind; brains; intellect ; leader; chief; boss; captain ; top; tip ; beginning; start ; head; person ; down payment; deposit ; top structural component of a kanji ; pair

敵(てき)

x1 | Rank #346

opponent; rival; adversary ; menace; danger; threat; enemy

と

x73 | Rank #6

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

称(しょう)する

x1 | Rank #9,298

to call; to name ; to call oneself ...; to go by the name of ... ; to purport (to be); to profess; to claim; to pretend; to feign ; to praise; to applaud

上野介

x1 | Rank #81,342

Kōzukenosuke

殺(さつ)害(がい)

x1 | Rank #2,615

killing; murder

する

x21 | Rank #18

to do; to carry out; to perform ; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into) ; to serve as; to act as; to work as ; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.) ; to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as ; to decide on; to choose ; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) ; to be (in a state, condition, etc.) ; to be worth; to cost ; to pass (of time); to elapse

という

x11 | Rank #61

called; named; that says; that ; as many as; as much as ; all ...; every single ...

いわゆる

x1 | Rank #3,721

what is called; what you call; what they call; so-called

起(お)こる

x1 | Rank #1,148

to occur; to happen

首(しゅ)謀(ぼう)

x1 | Rank #13,789

plotting; planning (crime, intrigue) ; ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot)

者(しゃ)

x6 | Rank #454

person; -er ; expert; geisha; prostitute

元(もと)

x3 | Rank #565

origin; source; beginning ; basis; base; foundation; root ; cause ; (raw) material; ingredient; base; mix (e.g. for a cake); (soup) stock ; (one's) side ; capital; principal; cost price ; root (of a plant); (tree) trunk ; part (of a brush, chopsticks, etc.) one holds (with the hand) ; first three lines of a waka ; counter for plants or trees

もと

x2 | Rank #2,068

城(じょう)代(だい)

x1 | Rank #42,339

chamberlain; castle keeper

家(か)老(ろう)

x1 | Rank #22,775

chief retainer; daimyo's minister

実(じっ)際(さい)は

x1 | Rank #9,526

in fact; as a matter of fact; actually; in reality; to tell the truth

大(たい)石(せき)

x1 | Rank #11,367

large stone; boulder ; large group of stones

山鹿

x1 | Rank #92,883

Yamaka ; Yamashika ; Yamajika

流(りゅう)

x1 | Rank #2,740

way; manner; style; fashion; mode ; school (e.g. of flower arrangement) ; class; rate; rank ; flow; current; stream

陣(じん)太(だい)鼓(こ)

x1 | Rank #112,142

war drum

なければ

x1 | Rank #566

if (it) doesn't exist; if there is no ...; if (one) doesn't have ... ; if not ...; unless ... ; have to ...; must ...

どっかん

x1 | Rank #78,356

with a bang

バリバリ

x1 | Rank #9,998

vigorously (ripping, tearing, scratching, etc.); roughly; with a rip ; (eating) with a crunch ; stiff; starchy; crisp ; (working) hard; energetically; vigorously; furiously ; with a series of loud, repeated sounds (e.g. firing a machine gun, revving an engine); with a lot of (continuous) noise

門(もん)

x1 | Rank #1,659

gate ; branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master ; division; phylum ; counter for cannons

叩(たた)き壊(こわ)す

x1 | Rank #57,686

to tear down; to shatter

こと

x26 | Rank #13

thing; matter ; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis ; circumstances; situation; state of affairs ; work; business; affair ; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to ; nominalizing suffix ; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... ; alias; also known as; otherwise known as; or ; necessity; need ; you should ...; I advise that you ...; it's important to ...

ない

x4 | Rank #35

nonexistent; not being (there) ; unowned; not had; unpossessed ; unique ; not; impossible; won't happen ; not ; to not be; to have not

ああいう

x1 | Rank #2,828

that sort of; like that

派(は)手(で)

x2 | Rank #2,826

showy; loud; flashy; gaudy

脚(きゃく)色(しょく)

x1 | Rank #41,548

dramatization (e.g. of a novel); dramatisation; adaptation (for the stage or screen) ; embellishment (of the facts); exaggeration; dramatization; embroidery

全(すべ)て

x2 | Rank #332

everything; all; the whole ; entirely; completely; wholly; all

後(こう)世(せい)

x1 | Rank #19,463

posterity; future generations; future life

作(つく)り事(ごと)

x1 | Rank #95,404

fabrication; lie; fiction

じゃあ

x3 | Rank #116

then; well; so; well then

一(いっ)体(たい)

x2 | Rank #436

(what) the heck; (why) in the world; (who) on earth ; one object; one body; unity ; one form; one style ; one Buddhist image (or carving, etc.) ; generally; in general

誰(だれ)

x3 | Rank #154

who

作(つく)る

x1 | Rank #265

to make; to produce; to manufacture; to build; to construct ; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol) ; to raise; to grow; to cultivate; to train ; to till ; to draw up (a document); to make out; to prepare; to write ; to create (an artistic work, etc.); to compose ; to coin (a phrase); to organize; to organise; to establish; to found ; to have (a child) ; to make up (one's face, etc.) ; to fabricate (an excuse, etc.)

って

x22 | Rank #15

you said; he said; she said; they said ; even if ; do you seriously think that ; I already told you; you should know by now that; of course ; the said ...; said ... ; says that ... ; I hear that ... ; as for the term ... ; as for ...

話(はなし)

x9 | Rank #99

talk; speech; chat; conversation ; topic; subject ; discussions; negotiation; argument ; rumor; talk; hearsay ; tale; story; fable ; circumstances; particulars

だが

x8 | Rank #109

but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that

二(に)

x3 | Rank #273

two; 2

代(だい)目(め)

x8 | Rank #5,318

nth generation; nth (person to occupy a position, e.g. president)

竹田

x1 | Rank #15,135

Okamura ; Taketa ; Takeda ; Chikuda

出雲(いずも)

x1 | Rank #17,634

Izumo (former province located in the east of present-day Shimane Prefecture)

ら

x2 | Rank #412

pluralizing suffix ; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc. ; nominalizing suffix

作(つく)り上(あ)げる

x1 | Rank #6,928

to build up; to complete; to construct; to create; to put together ; to make up; to fabricate; to invent; to cook up

人(にん)形(ぎょう)浄(じょう)瑠(る)璃(り)

x1 | Rank #101,021

Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku)

その

x23 | Rank #28

that; the ; part (as in "part two") ; um ...; er ...; uh ...

大(おお)本(もと)

x1 | Rank #36,904

root; origin; source; cause; basis; foundation ; Ōmoto (religion)

この

x30 | Rank #27

this ; last (couple of years, etc.); these; past; this ; you (as in "you liar")

大(だい)事(じ)件(けん)

x1 | Rank #15,822

major incident; major happening; big scandal

に

x178 | Rank #5

at (place, time); in; on; during ; to (direction, state); toward; into ; for (purpose) ; because of (reason); for; with ; by; from ; as (i.e. in the role of) ; per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month") ; and; in addition to ; if; although

士(さむらい)

x1 | Rank #1,854

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

いろは

x1 | Rank #15,171

mother

文(も)字(じ)

x1 | Rank #1,926

letter (of an alphabet); character ; writing

なぞらえる

x1 | Rank #41,235

to liken to; to compare to ; to pattern after; to model after; to imitate

仮(か)名(な)手(で)本(ほん)

x4 | Rank #142,763

Japanese kana copybook

忠(ちゅう)臣(しん)蔵(ぐら)

x9 | Rank #68,628

(story of the) Forty-seven Rōnin; the Treasury of Loyal Retainers; Chūshingura

段(だん)

x6 | Rank #4,101

step; stair; rung; (flight of) steps ; shelf; layer; tier ; grade; level; class ; dan (degree of advanced proficiency in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.); rank ; paragraph; passage ; column (of print) ; act (in kabuki, joruri, etc.); section; scene ; row of the multiplication table (e.g. five times table) ; stage (in a process); phase; occasion; time; moment; situation ; matter; occasion

通(とお)し狂(きょう)言(げん)

x1 | Rank #203,419

performance of an entire play

仕(し)立(た)てる

x1 | Rank #16,889

to tailor; to make (clothing) ; to train; to bring up ; to make it seem like; to pass off ; to turn into a play or movie ; to prepare; to send; to despatch

世(よ)

x2 | Rank #1,560

world; society; public ; life; lifetime ; age; era; period; epoch; generation ; reign; rule ; the times ; world (of existence)

出(だ)す

x4 | Rank #239

to take out; to get out ; to put out; to reveal; to show ; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in ; to publish; to make public ; to send (e.g. letter) ; to produce (a sound); to start (fire) ; to serve (food) ; ... out (e.g. to jump out, to carry out) ; to begin ...; to start to ...; to burst into ...

これ

x10 | Rank #33

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

上(じょう)方(ほう)

x1 | Rank #17,508

upper part; upper region; region above

で

x92 | Rank #10

at; in ; at; when ; by; with ; within; in ; and then; so ; and; then ; let me tell you; don't you know

ばか

x1 | Rank #952

idiot; moron; fool ; stupid; foolish; dull; absurd; ridiculous ; trivial; insignificant; disappointing ; malfunctioning; defective; losing sensation ; incredibly; unusually; exceptionally ; fervent enthusiast; nut; person singularly obsessed with something ; Mactra chinensis (species of trough shell)

当(あ)たり

x2 | Rank #4,480

hit ; success ; guess; prediction ; affability; friendliness ; sensation; touch ; bruise (on fruit) ; situation in which a stone or chain of stones may be captured on the next move ; bite (of a fish on a hook); strike ; per; each

御(ご)免(めん)

x1 | Rank #10,600

I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me ; may I come in? ; permission; leave; license ; dismissal; discharge ; not wanting; objecting to; being fed up with; wishing to avoid

すぐさま

x1 | Rank #6,416

immediately; promptly

歌(か)舞(ぶ)伎(き)

x7 | Rank #20,155

kabuki; traditional form of drama and music performed by male actors wearing makeup mainly in white and red

でも

x10 | Rank #39

but; however; though; nevertheless; still; yet; even so; also; as well ; even ; however; no matter how; even if; even though ; ... or something ; either ... or ...; neither ... nor ... ; pseudo-; quack; in-name-only ; for lack of anything better to do

上(じょう)演(えん)

x1 | Rank #11,176

performance (of a play, opera, etc.); staging; presentation

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