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Doushisha Women's University

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Miyako

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

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prefectural assembly (in Kyoto or Osaka)

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

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dispersal; evacuation; removal; spreading out (troops); deployment

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to relate; to narrate; to describe; to confer (a rank)

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Kaisei

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

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Earth Dragon (5th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1928, 1988, 2048)

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to manage; to control; to cut carelessly (of a cook, surgeon, etc.); to slash about; (arch.) to cut around

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all; the whole; on the whole; all in all; generally

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dormitory dean

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Satsuma Rebellion (1877)

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exemplar; model; example; pattern

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is it?

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law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale

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visit (to a religious site, e.g. shrine, temple, grave)

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pulmonary tuberculosis (in traditional Chinese medicine)

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first child

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Saku

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Kanbee

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mortar; plaster; stucco

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

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enemy of the emperor; rebel against the imperial government

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the rounds of tradesmen going door to door; route man; door-to-door tradesman; thief taker; secret policeman

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rebel army

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opening a school

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temporary residence

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mustard

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to bend a bow; to shoot an arrow; to rise up against; to rebel against

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mountain river; mountain stream

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gourd-shaped war fan; referee's fan; stratagem; tactics

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to wield a spear

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original sin

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to be transparent; to show through

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girl; lass; young thing; chick

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interruption; interference; butting in

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woman; girl; daughter; Chinese "Girl" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

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(Satsuma) to be

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discarding; firing (an employee)

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death; the late; the deceased

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for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad

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let me humbly say; most humbly; with all due respect

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peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade

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Ministry of Finance

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Japanese chimera; mythical creature with a monkey's head, tanuki's body, tiger's limbs, and a snake tail; White's thrush (Zoothera dauma); mysterious person; person of unknown character

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unsanitary condition; lack of hygienic care; inattention to hygiene; unhygienic conditions

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rustic; unsophisticated; provincial; hick; uncool; unstylish

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to barricade oneself in; to hold (a fort, etc.); to shut oneself up; to be besieged; to dig in

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