つて

tsute

connections, personal contacts

Example sentences

伝手つてを頼たより溝口みぞぐちの内弟子うちでしになることになった。
His contacts made it possible for him to later become Mizoguchi’s apprentice.
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その歌会仲間かかいなかまのツテで、伊勢物語いせものがたりの講こうにも参加さんか。
He also joined a seminar of "Ise Monogatari" through the influence of Utakai compatriots.
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勝かつは焦土作戦しょうどさくせんを準備じゅんびするにあたって、新門辰五郎しんもんたつごろうら市井しせいの友人ゆうじんの伝手つてを頼たよった。
When Katsu prepared the scorched-earth strategy, he relied on the connections of his friends with in the towns' people of Edo, such as Tatsugoro SHINMON.
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