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Yanagita Kunio

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tsubo; traditional unit of land area, approx. 3.31 square meters; tsubo; traditional unit of fabric or paper area, approx. 9.18 square centimeters; tsubo; traditional unit of leather or tile area, approx. 918 square centimeters

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neighbourhood; neighborhood; all sides; frontiers (of a country); four sides (of a shape)

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library

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library; book storage; stack room; archive (file)

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corner; nook

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middle of the night; dead of night

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care; looking after; trouble; bother; good offices; recommendation

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rational; reasonable; logical

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to cut corners; to be shoddy

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satisfactory; decent; good; proper; worthy

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House of Peers (Japan, Meiji constitution); House of Lords (UK)

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secretary

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good luck; fortune; happiness; harvest; yield

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official residence

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fresh (e.g. fish); lively; spirited; animated

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travel writing; travel piece; traveller's journal; traveler's journal

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old river

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old pine

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miscellaneous notes

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westward trip; trip to the West

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kidney

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Kaibara Ekiken

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charm

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road; load; lord

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married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)

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to walk about; to walk around; to walk to and fro; to pace around; to wander

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country road

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place of destination

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business

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Tokyo dialect; Tokyo accent

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movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling

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famous; noted; renowned; celebrated; well-known

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six (long cylindrical things)

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all that one has; all that there is; the whole

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there is nothing

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Nasu

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since then; from that time; ever since

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association; socializing; socialising; fellowship

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fuel

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to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)

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general

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Western-style room

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each; individual

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Japanese style; Japanesque; Japanism

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shoji (paper sliding door)

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huge success

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through; throughout; through (the good offices of); by way of

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beam; light ray

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indescribable; inexpressible; unspeakable; indefinable; nobody can tell

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