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shoulders; body; honour; honor; prestige

2

to divide (into); to split (into); to share; to distribute; to distinguish; to discriminate; to break up (a fight)

1

to hand over; to transfer; to give up (e.g. one's seat); to give way; to yield; to concede

5

main office; this office

1

libertine; playboy; rake; lazy person

1

someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour

1

coherence; order; focus; point

1

Fujioka

1

influenza; flu

1

army

1

lieutenant colonel; commander (navy)

1

First Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895)

1

death in battle

1

suicide

2

quite; entirely; completely; as if; as though; just like

2

to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is)

1

to cut down (e.g. trees)

2

to demolish; to tear down; to pull down

1

flute; fife; pipe; whistle

77

mound; heap; hillock; burial mound; tomb; tumulus

4

magistrate; shogunate administrator

1

Hizen (former province located in present-day Saga and Nagasaki prefectures, excluding Tsushima and Oki Islands)

1

essays; miscellaneous writings; literary jottings

1

(arch.) mourning clothes; mourning; period of mourning

1

a verse (e.g. in the Bible); stanza; paragraph; passage; a joint; section

1

Mino (former province located in the south of present-day Gifu Prefecture)

1

Ministry of War (Tang-dynasty China)

1

assistant vice-minister (ritsuryo system, early Meiji period)

1

chief retainer; daimyo's minister

2

certain amount; some; certain person; Mr So-and-so; (arch.) I; (arch.) me

1

seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

5

to tell; to announce; to declare; to pass (a sentence); to order

1

autopsy; inquest; investigation of death

1

time (three times, each time, etc.); times

2

feeling guilty; having a guilty conscience; having qualms about

1

one's long-cherished desire

1

to think, feel, consider, know, etc.

2

staying in the same inn or hotel; rooming together

2

long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)

2

to choose; to select

1

sword inscribed with the name of the swordsmith

1

wanted; wished for; in need of; I want (you) to

3

price; cost; value; worth; value

2

entreaty; solicitation; earnest request

1

successive generations

2

to accompany; to go with; to go together

1

pine grove

1

to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over

2

to kill with a sword (knife, dagger, etc.); to slay; to put to the sword

1

sinful; wicked; immoral

1