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pie in the sky; castles in the air; (lit.) drawing of a rice cake

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measured map; surveyed map

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Tsuguyuki

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Mitsu

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the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism; the Nine Chinese Classics

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family quarrel; quarrel between parent and child

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snowy night

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Tentoku era (957.10.27-961.2.16)

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wasteful expenses

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Council of Five Elders (committee of daimyo formed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to rule Japan until his son Hideyori came of age)

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to hack; to chop (firewood, meat, etc.); to chop off (e.g. a head)

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rice cultivation; rice farming

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Battle of Sekigahara (1600)

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Hideyori

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survey; actual measurements

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epidemic

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Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

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financial situation

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dry field farming; dry field crop

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going to the capital; working in a government office

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territory; fiefdom; feudal domain

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to play (a game of) go

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

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how it came about; how it originated; how it happened; the origins of the imbroglio

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vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)

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wakizashi; short sword worn by samurai

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to start; to begin; to commence

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no matter what happens; in any circumstances; at any price

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to memorize; to memorise; to recite from memory

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emergency; accident; rare possibility; unexpected occurrence

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to take part in; to be a party to; to side with; to support; to agree with

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irrigation water; water for fire; city water; cistern water

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children and grandchildren; posterity; descendants

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horses and cattle

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haughty; holding one's head high

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battle cry

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Sunpu (old name for Shizuoka City)

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Japanese spirea (Spiraea Japonica); meadowsweet; Shimotsuke (former province located in present-day Tochigi Prefecture)

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blind female beggar who sings or plays shamisen

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to settle down; to stay (for good); to stay long; to stay on

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Sekigahara (battle site, 1600); decisive battle; critical battle

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one's home; hometown; native place; birthplace

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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)

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alas; regrettably; to my great regret; tragically

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Utsunomiya (city in Tochigi)

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Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)

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tomboy

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(plain) hot water; boiled water

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illustration; drawing

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(received) favor, kindness or blessing (favour)

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