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本領 ほんりょう

  1. characteristic quality; one's real ability; one's specialty; special character
  2. one's duty; one's function
  3. fief; inherited estate

本領を発揮 ほんりょうをはっき

  1. to come into one's own; to display one's real ability; to find one's feet (legs); to hit (strike) one's stride; to really shine; to show one's real ability; to show one's stuff; to show oneself at one's best

本領安堵 ほんりょうあんど

  1. recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods)

本領発揮 ほんりょうはっき

  1. illustration of the distinctive character of (something); show one's real ability

日本領 にほんりょう

  1. Japanese territory
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