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wearing a maternity belt

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young adult still living at home; dependent; female servant working for a lady-in-waiting working in the inner part of a lord's house (Edo period); freeloader living in a samurai's house; young kabuki actor in service of a master (Edo period)

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peasant; small farmer

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cleaning dust etc. from rooms; housecleaning; (the traditional Japanese end-of-the-year, 13th December) big house cleaning; spring cleaning (only not in spring)

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Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604.8.12-1651.6.8), Shougun 1623-1651

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working as a lady's maid

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Kouan

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punishment (of an enemy); chastisement

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Umetarou

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doctor to a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)

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courtier; noble; people serving the Imperial Court

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to be tear-stained; to have one's face covered with tears

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steering; helmsman; coxswain; guidance; leadership; leader

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Kageyama

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sword for self-defense; sword for self-defence

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inner part of a house (near the kitchen, living room, etc.); family matters; household affairs; personal business

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barbarians; aliens

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sincerity; devotion

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pulling up; drawing up; raising; increase; repatriation; evacuation

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great deed; great enterprise; great work; massive undertaking

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to tear down; to shatter

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censure; criticism; blame; disparagement; vilification

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for shame!; shame on you!; shame!

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to take the blame; to take responsibility; to assume liability; to bear the burden

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to be able to see

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miraculous; wonder-working; magical

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enemy of the emperor; rebel against the imperial government

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to work out a plan of deception; to scheme; (arch.) to think up a plan; (arch.) to think over a plan; (arch.) to discuss; (arch.) to consult

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situation; state of things; current affairs

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to change; to alter; to run counter to; to go against; to make a mistake (in); to err

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unnatural death; violent death

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to capitulate; to surrender; to submit to; to concede

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loyalty to the emperor

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to sentence; to assign a penalty

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(the privilege to have) an audience (with one's lord, a dignitary, etc.); interview (with one's superior); one's debut (first) appearance; debut (of a new product, work of art, actor, etc.); trial service (of a servant)

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tender; warm; meticulous; detailed; deep (of a colour); thick (e.g. fog)

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closing of a gate; (Edo-period) house confinement

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absurd; unreasonable

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successive generations; hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)

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sympathy; consideration; (arch.) service; (arch.) labor; (arch.) illness; (arch.) disease

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to marry (a woman); to take to wife; to take in marriage

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miscreant; scoundrel; villain

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opportunism; waiting and seeing (how the wind blows); sitting on the fence; straddling

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to work as the backbone (of); to bear responsibility (for); to be the mainstay (of); to be the central part (of)

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guts; pluck; nerve; spirit

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commando unit

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Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i

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fetters; shackles; hobbles; encumbrance; hindrance; burden

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to sheathe one's sword; to lay down arms; to bury the hatchet

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gunfire; fire

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