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thank you for your hard work; good work; see you; goodbye; goodnight

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chimes; toll of a bell

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motive power; driving force

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reformation; revolution; renewal; Meiji Restoration

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to inherit; to succeed; to take over

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imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era; patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation

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many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly

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and; and then; thus; and now; and finally

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friend

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just before

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admiration; wonder; astonishment

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government official

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attitude; manner; behaviour; attitude (towards an issue, etc.); position; stance

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magnificent; grand; fair; square; grandly; boldly

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one's last moment; one's death; one's end

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Shouinjinsha

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Setagayaku

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to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve

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song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry

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to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to think of (a far-off person, place, etc.); to cast one's mind to; to worry about; to feel anxious about

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parents; both parents

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return; coming back

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myself; yourself; I; me; you

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home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains

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there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you

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book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter

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last farewell

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to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember

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to come to an end; to lower the curtain

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life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life

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disturbance; trouble; ups and downs

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Ansei era (1854.11.27-1860.3.18)

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to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order

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imprisonment; incarceration

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precinct of a jail; vicinity of a prison

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to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)

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to carry on; to go on with one's life; to keep alive; to stay alive; to survive

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to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that

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to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)

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curtain; bunting; act (in play)

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Ansei Purge (1858-1860)

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by means of; due to; because of; according to

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Naosuke

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seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause

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next; following; subsequent; stage; station

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unhulled rice; rice in the husk; paddy; rice husks; chaff

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(a) grain; (a) drop; (a) bead

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please; somehow or other; one way or another

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off the top of one's head; from thin air; from memory

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to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with

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