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Katanobu

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encyclopedia; encyclopaedia

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Kounoshin

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gunner; artillerist

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Tokumaru

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audience seating (noh theater); audience (esp. in noh)

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Tokuzou

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Opium War (1840-42)

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wild ginger trefoil coat of arms of the Tokugawa clan

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stone-throwing fight

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striker (triangular piece of steel used with flint to create sparks)

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perversity; cantankerous; eccentric

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friendship

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bevel

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sake drunk while viewing a snowy scene

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study of natural laws; branch of neo-Confusianist scholarship

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small stipend

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Tetsunosuke

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accepting with pleasure

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a telegraph

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to start rowing; to begin to row; to row out (e.g. to sea); to pull out; to start pedaling; to begin to pedal

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reverberatory furnace

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metal fittings; metal fixtures

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feudal decree; edict by a daimyo

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the principle of the thing

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Itagaki Taisuke (1837-1919)

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inspection tour

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conch (esp. Charonia tritonis); trumpet shell

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autumn, the harvest season

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coastal defense; coastal defence

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educational reform

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clan school; han school

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Ii Naosuke (1815-1860.3.24)

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large junk, with capacity for 1,000 koku of rice

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Sanzaemon

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remonstrance; remonstration; admonition; protest; reproof; expostulation

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suspension bridge; viaduct; temporary bridge; mediation; go-between

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to behave well; to mind one's manners

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the same as something was reputed to be

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barony of the first degree; influential feudal clan

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thoughts; opinion; however much money you wish to give (as alms, a fee at a museum, etc.); fondness (for a significant other, etc.; often used teasingly); love

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faithfulness; devotion

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domain administration (Edo period); clan administration

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national policy

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Yasuke

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severe famine

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miraculous god; wonder-working god

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clothing decorated with one's family crest

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to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt

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(not) in the least; (not) at all

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