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excessive yield; overharvest

1

Ujichika

1

distant future; inevitable future; places one goes to

1

Inosuke

1

lady's pin money (pocket money); payment to a cosmetician; cosmetic material; dowry (Edo period)

2

allotment; arrangement

1

living Buddha; saintly Buddhist monk; living person

1

debt

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recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods)

2

profit margin

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Hishikawa

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Kakutarou

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cancellation; writing off (a debt); indicating a long sound in kana; tug o' war; tug of war

4

to hold a memorial service for the dead, praying for their happiness in the next life by chanting sutras

1

ukiyoe artist

1

to sell (a thing) cheap

1

to get together all the money necessary (to pay off a debt)

1

Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist uprising (Muromachi and Warring States periods)

1

to name; to call by name; to mention by name

1

glancing through

1

security for a loan; collateral

1

benevolent rule; moratorium on debts

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Samanosuke

1

borrowing (money)

1

acting illogically

1

land survey; cadastral survey

1

monk; priest; boy

1

light offered to a god or Buddha; votive light

2

informal summer clothes for men (short jacket and trousers)

6

trivial; not amounting to much; not a big deal

1

jutting out (of bounds); being crowded out

2

starting; engaging; expenses; costs; attack (esp. a corner approach in the game of go); barb

1

forces of opposition; opposing forces; counterforce

1

loan; debt; liability

1

mon; one-thousandth of a kan (unit of currency 1336-1870); 2.4 cm (traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes); letter; character; scripture

3

in one's senses; sane

1

crosspiece (between pillars, etc.); penetrating tie beam

1

connection; relation

1

girl; young (unmarried) woman

3

to receive permission; to leave (with someone's permission); to retire; to refuse; to beg off doing

1

valley; ravine; glen; gorge

1

return to secular life; secularization; secularisation

4

congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present

7

visit to console someone; giving comfort (to the sick, injured, etc.); expressing condolences (sympathy, concern, etc.); sympathy call

1

existential threat; life-or-death crisis

1

castle town; fortified town

1

four times; four colour process printing (color); CMYK printing

1

celadon porcelain

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Tōtōmi (former province located in the west of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)

2

Tajima (former province located in the north of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture)

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