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Ainu plucked string instrument

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Tamai

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

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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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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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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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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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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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military discharge

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

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to fail to die (e.g. after suicide attempt or accident); to survive; to outlive

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combat engineer; military engineer; combat engineering; military engineering

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to chip off; to scrape off; to prune

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bilateral symmetry

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first arrival; first in race; suit of clothes

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under cover of night

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sleet; daikon shavings; grated daikon; shaved ice topped with honey

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to let (someone) swim; to make (someone) swim; to make (someone) stumble forward; to make stagger; to let (a suspect) roam freely (while monitoring them); to leave at large

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one ear

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look; glance; stone (in the game of go)

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to bring into the open; to reveal; to uncover (e.g. evidence); to bring to light

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to underrate; to make light of

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construction worker; laborer (labourer); navvy

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corporal

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halfway point

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