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Yakichi

1

to quarrel; to dispute

1

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

3

to taper off

2

Kakutarou

1

to be overgrown

1

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

2

temple's territory; temple's estate

2

rice cultivation; rice farming

1

deep pool; deep water; abyss; depths (e.g. of despair, etc.); grip (e.g. of death)

2

Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist uprising (Muromachi and Warring States periods)

1

Good heavens!; Oh my god!; gee whiz

1

to abolish; to abandon; to repeal; to dethrone; to depose

1

security for a loan; collateral

1

benevolent rule; moratorium on debts

22

fleeing in all directions; (in Japanese history, a reference to) farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes

1

rice nursery; bed for rice seedlings

1

breath of fresh air; cool (refreshing) breeze

2

traction; towing; hauling; driving (e.g. economic growth)

1

cover (e.g. for illegal activity); front; Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant); straw raincoat that makes one invisible

1

plan

1

arrowhead; target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack); the very moment (when); the point (of doing)

1

informal summer clothes for men (short jacket and trousers)

6

furious opposition; strong opposition; vehement protest

1

senior priest (of a Shinto shrine, below chief priest and deputy chief priest); grasshopper; locust

8

written seal; stylized signature

1

harvest moon (trad. 15th day of the 8th lunar month); bright moon; full moon

2

hereafter

1

strangely; oddly; miraculously; mysteriously

1

having nothing except one's body; having empty pockets; being penniless

1

usurer; usury; loansharking

1

greedy; avaricious; covetous

1

in one's senses; sane

1

girl; young (unmarried) woman

2

to do (indicating contempt for other person's actions)

1

face; honour; honor; reputation; prestige; dignity

1

windy; windswept; receive harsh treatment

1

quite; utterly; (not) at all; completely; wholly; entirely

1

doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion

1

congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present

16

proclamation; promulgation

6

historical materials; historical records; historical sources; archives

1

rice planting

3

bad harvest; poor crop

1

Dewa (former province located in present-day Yamagata and Akita prefectures)

1

to take root; to strike

1

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

11

bluntly (refusing, etc.); flatly; out of hand; completely

1

severely; harshly; utterly; terribly

1

Sunpu (old name for Shizuoka City)

2