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Furitsu Hospital

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Sasayama

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Ms; Miss; Madame; highbrow (woman); cerebral

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how

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Etou Shimpei (1835-1874)

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intractable (diseases); hard to cure; rebellious; insurgent; refractory

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policy of conquering Korea by military force

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to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)

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postal (post-office) savings (deposit)

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framed picture or motto (usu. horizontal, hung over gates or lintels)

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thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan; sukiyaki

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perilous pass (on a route or journey); rough spot

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Itagaki Taisuke (1837-1919)

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Iwakura Tomomi (1825-1883)

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solar calendar

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Kyoto style; urbanity; refinement

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transfer of permanent domicile (as recorded in the family register); transfer of school register

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public money

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clanship; clannism; clan favoritism; clan favouritism

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(verbal) message; sending word; (arch.) excuse; (arch.) pretext

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national; governmental

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secretary; councillor; councilor

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dormitory dean

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brushwork; handling of one's brush; command of one's pen; penmanship

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guidebook; guide

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exemplar; model; example; pattern

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Western learning (introduced to Japan in the late-Edo and early-Meiji eras)

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rice nursery; bed for rice seedlings

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to divide (by); to remove; to exclude

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cabinet decision

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Grand Minister; Chancellor of the Realm

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imitation; copy; make-believe; doing something in a way that only superficially resembles the real thing

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civilization; civilisation; enlightenment

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Christ

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to become rusted together; to become rusted shut; to rust; to become (completely) rusty; to become rusty (of a skill or ability); to become less effective

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opinion; idea

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relaxed; familiar; easy to access; friendly

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Saku

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Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari); the Minamoto family

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great deed; great enterprise; great work; massive undertaking

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dismantling a (historic) building and reconstructing it elsewhere

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Ministry of Justice (1871-1948)

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report to the throne

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(oral) message; declaration; hearsay; rumour; rumor

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civilization and enlightenment; Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era (Westernisation)

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losing initiative; being forestalled; second move (in go or shogi); moving second; rear guard

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(another person's) younger sister

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participation in government; state councillor (in the ritsuryo system); state councilor; vice-minister (early Meiji period); Cabinet Councillor (1937-1943); Cabinet Councilor

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Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods)

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raid

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