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to prove; to verify; to guarantee; to promise

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playing to the gallery; showing off; pretence; surface preparation (for painting, etc.); scraping a surface clean

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Tsutsui Junkei

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band of warriors (often formed from related or dependent families); group of samurai

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the five viscera (liver, lungs, heart, kidney and spleen)

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(one) flag

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padre; title for Portuguese Jesuits (in Japan in the 16th century); Christianity; Christian

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arriving at camp (military); (a court noble) attending a government office

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sukiyaki; thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan

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fateful; decisive (e.g. war)

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midnight

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animal flesh

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to march on the capital

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tenderhearted; faint of heart

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gale; strong wind; swift wind; fresh breeze (Beaufort scale)

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old name for part of Hyogo prefecture

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territories in the vicinity of the capital and under direct imperial rule; (in Japanese history) the five kuni in the immediate vicinity of Kyoto

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to raise an army

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horses and cattle

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each time

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to receive permission; to leave (with someone's permission); to retire; to refuse; to beg off doing

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to pinch and crush; to pinch out

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a little embarrassing; slightly embarrassed; somewhat ashamed; extremely embarrassing; extremely embarrassed

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son-in-law

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purple

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to butt into a conversation (from someone uninvolved)

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our side; we

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foot of a mountain; base of a mountain

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brilliant; radiant; bright; sparkling

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to pitch camp; to set up camp

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makeshift

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design; sketch

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state (of affairs); condition; developments; movements

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to get worked up; to be eager (enthusiastic); to rouse oneself

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tendency; trend

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boorish; unrefined; rustic; uncouth; clumsy; brusque

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to take by storm (e.g. a castle); to assault; to capture; to reduce

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great mountain; large mountain

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to decapitate; to take (someone's) head off; to depose; to topple

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to die

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Son of God; child of an emperor

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gap; space

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gauntlet (used in Kendo); bracer; fencing glove

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I pray; I wish

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honour; honor

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Saitou

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Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)

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uncleanliness; dirtiness; (arch.) menses; (arch.) feces (faeces); bathroom

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miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key (main) point; good part (of something); weakling

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inscription; epitaph; (manufacturer's) engraved signature; motto; maxim

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