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Yakata

4

Toshiie

1

Tsuguyuki

1

Tadatsune

1

Ichizaemon

5

breaking through or sneaking past a barrier

1

in and about a kitchen; family circumstances

1

snowy night

3

Jiemon

11

Tentoku era (957.10.27-961.2.16)

2

kabukimono; Edo-period samurai who attracted public attention with their eye-catching clothes, peculiar hairstyle, and eccentric behavior

4

wasteful expenses

1

moxa; Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps)

3

Hansuke

2

Battle of Sekigahara (1600)

1

randori (freestyle judo training)

1

to toady; to be obsequious

1

regrettable; unsatisfactory; deplorable; lamentable

1

epidemic

1

comfortable retirement

1

other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but

1

mistress; kept woman; concubine; (arch.) close female servant

1

trivial; not amounting to much; not a big deal

1

feigned ignorance

1

to see; to look; to watch

1

Kyoto

1

you can get used to living anywhere; home is where you make it; wherever I lay my hat is home

1

western army (e.g. in a civil war); Western Army (Battle of Sekigahara)

1

pile; pool; gathering spot; waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring; liquid runoff from miso preparation; tamari

1

ronin; masterless samurai

6

(in spite of) being old enough to know better

1

vegetables or fish boiled in soy sauce

1

main force; brute force; strong-arm

1

emergency; accident; rare possibility; unexpected occurrence

1

duel

3

order; command

1

breakfast

1

to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)

1

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

1

guardhouse

3

successive generations; hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)

1

philandering; itch for women

1

chicken meat; reddish-brown chicken

1

to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to become lost (e.g. of dignity); to be sullied

1

lucky you

1

one game (of go, shogi, etc.); one board (go, shogi, etc.); one office (of a broadcasting station, post office, etc.)

1

one's legal wife

1

one month

1

88 years old; (arch.) rice

3

Kenshin

1