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steadily

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plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice

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capture; takeover; hijack; skyjacking

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your home; your family; their home; (my) home

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to step forward; to step forth; to advance; to start; to embark on; to set forth on

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road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)

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Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo

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reliance; dependence

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record; transcript

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march; marching

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

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inherited; family (heirloom); ancestral

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straight; directly; voyage; journey; straight road

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daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo period)

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slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark

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to advance; to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to improve; to deepen

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attacking the shogunate

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period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness

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to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)

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earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)

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authority; power; influence

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gaining total control (of people or counties); suppression; oppression; control; mastery; ascendancy

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land near a castle; castle town

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activity (esp. energetic); great efforts; conspicuous service; to flourish; to participate actively; to play an active role

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strategy; tactics

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to set up (a house, store, etc.); to build; to have at the ready (e.g. a gun); to hold in preparation (e.g. a camera); to adopt a posture; to assume a stance; to put on an air

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was

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was; were

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fierce battle; hard-fought battle; hot contest; severe fight

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among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)

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counter for places, parts, passages, etc.

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national border; provincial border

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beginning; start

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to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back

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restriction; restraint; binding; constraint

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to accept; to receive; to agree

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order; command; decree; (software) instruction; statement

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disposal; throwing away; dealing with (a problem); measure; punishment; penalty

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to look out on; to overlook; to face (a situation, crisis, etc.); to meet (e.g. death); to deal with (an issue); to attend (e.g. a function)

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counter for temples

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May; fifth month of the lunar calendar

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year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

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Keiō era (1865.4.7-1868.9.8)

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complaint

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new; fresh; novel

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thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love

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decisive battle; deciding match; play-off

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last; final; closing; last train (bus, flight, etc.; of the day)

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finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)

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to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)

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