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Ainu plucked string instrument

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Tamai

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Saichi

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misty mountain in spring with buds and flowers emerging

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pheasant's eye (species of buttercup, Adonis ramosa)

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Ogata

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tone (of voice); parlance; style; intonation; accent

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Tanigaki

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smooth; flat; featureless; uneventful; noppera-bō; mythical being with flat featureless face

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Tsurumi

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Sugimoto

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hand grenade

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spring thunder

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minute; meticulous

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agricultural soldiers; colonizers; colonisers

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Mishima

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fukuwarai; New Year's game in which blindfolded players place cutouts of facial features onto the outline of a face

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traditional winter hunters in Tōhoku; matagi

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god; deity; divinity; spirit; kami

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Komiya

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to catch fish

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a bowel movement

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pillbox

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cave; cavern

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Japanese name (often of plants and animals, and written in kana)

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Hijikata Toshizou (1835.5.31-1869.6.20)

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bhikkhuni (fully ordained Buddhist nun); travelling female entertainer dressed as a nun (Kamakura, Muromachi periods); lowly prostitute dressed as a nun (Edo period); female servant hired to take the blame for a noblewoman's farts

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boiled octopus; person as red as a lobster

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to despair of; to see the vanity of

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Karafuto (Japanese name for Sakhalin)

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small bear; bear cub

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escaped prisoner

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guns; firearms

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rim; brim; edge; brink

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for women

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Japanese person

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signal gun; starting gun

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usage; way to use; utilization

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mortal

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private first-class (army); airman first class (air force); lance corporal (US Marines; Commonwealth military); seaman (navy)

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rebellion

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one person's portion

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regimental commander

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Shinsengumi; Edo period police and military force dedicated to suppressing anti-shogunate activities

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brown bear (Ursus arctos)

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Iwan; Ivan

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military discharge

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Ainu

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greedy; grasping; tightfisted; predatory (e.g. business); calculating; avaricious

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... and eastward; east of

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