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maternal grandfather

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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)

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pestle

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fault-finding; carping

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prayer; grace (at meals); exorcism

1

engagement; betrothal; marriage contract

1

Naomori

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charm; attractiveness; courtesy; ingratiating behaviour; entertainment; amusement

2

Nizaemon

2

bride; one's daughter-in-law

1

triple alliance

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heyday; prime; one's glory; the height of one's prosperity

1

Samanosuke

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vein of gold; financial connections; patron; source of money

1

betrothal; wedding; marriage into a family; adoption

1

snide remark; insinuation; sly dig; disguised reproach; indirect criticism

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purveyor (to the government or Imperial Household)

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to grovel; to go down on one's hands and knees

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clouds and fog

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to become (formal)

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glutton

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under the sod; one's grave; the other world

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features; looks

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return to secular life; secularization; secularisation

3

returning to the service of one's master

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had better do so

1

nature; disposition; quality; that which does not change according to external influences

1

(dying) suddenly; (breaking) brittly; with a snap; softly and swellingly

1

canter; gallop

1

to convey (a message, e.g. to one's superior); to communicate; to pass on; to pass along

1

making one's best exertions

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fiance; fiancee

1

to be highly pleased

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

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relative

2

common occurrence; everyday occurrence; not an uncommon case; normal thing; everyday affair

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ornamental garden stone (seemingly placed randomly to give the garden a more natural appearance); garden rock; sacrificed stone (in go); sacrifice (e.g. career, reputation); stones used in a foundation; riprap

1

to marry (a woman); to take to wife; to take in marriage

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Shuzen

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Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Tarō (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)

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to employ; to engage

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to be (too) late getting married; to be (too) late going somewhere

2

bump (e.g. on forehead); lump; protuberance; swelling

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eboshi; black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan

1

stranger; tramp; wanderer

1

remote mountain; mountain recesses

8

male coming-of-age-ceremony; shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)

2

to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)

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eternity; permanence; perpetuity

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fencer; swordsman

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