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侍, さむらい, さぶらい
- samurai,saburai
JLPT LEVEL 1
Definition
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
- warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period)
- samurai
Definition
- man in attendance (on a person of high standing)
- retainer
Examples of 侍,さむらい,さぶらい in a Sentence
Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868.
Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868.
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