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bribery scandal

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your home; your family; their home; (my) home

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carrying out one's duties; ruling a fief; ruling a territory given by one's liege; territory given by one's liege; fief

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to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block

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take up farming again

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to employ; to engage

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Kanbee

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to be helpful; to be useful

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mid-stream; middle course; middle class

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Satoemon

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worker; breadwinner; supporter; able person; able man; productive worker

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having a wife; marrying (a woman); marriage

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near; close; beside; attendant; retainer; vassal

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manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period)

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nobleman; dignitary; feudal lord (of the Edo period); daimyō; man brought up away from the world; arrogant man with little knowledge of the ways of the world

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conduct; behavior; behaviour; being pregnant

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to reform (oneself); to conduct oneself well

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to remonstrate; to admonish (someone) for; to advise (someone) not to; to warn against

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hence; for that reason

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conversion; reform; correcting someone's conduct

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calamity; misfortune; disaster

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tribe; clan; (taxonomical) tribe; group (of the periodic table)

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heir; inheritor; successor

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superintendent; supervisor; warden

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to call (someone) back; to recall; to call home; to bring back (memories, etc.); to recall; to revive

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stuffing; packing; end (esp. the foot of a bridge); lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony; tea master; endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively); sweet eel sauce

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to sink deeply into one's mind; to come home to; to go to one's heart; to pierce one's body (e.g. of wind, cold, etc.)

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painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate

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to keep a diary

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top or preceding horizontal column

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permanence; eternity

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small; fine; detailed; stingy

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to bring (someone) back home; to take (someone) back home

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suddenly (hit); with a slap; sharply (glance, glare, etc.); fiercely; suddenly; all of a sudden

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commander; general; leader

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poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow

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Takeda Kouunsai (1803-1865)

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barrier; checkpoint; checking station

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guard; watchman

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sleeping outdoors; sleeping out in the open air; camping

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to catch a cold

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raw silk thread

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trade (foreign)

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kimono fabrics shop; draper

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plait; braid

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(arch.) eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara); (arch.) eastern provinces; (arch.) east; wagon; yamatogoto; my spouse

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to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray

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distance; range

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grass used for thatching; sedge used for thatching

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such ... as; or some such

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