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Umenoshin

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governor of a feudal domain (1869-1871)

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the return of the land and people from the feudal lords to the Emperor

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Kido Takayoshi (1833.8.11-1877.5.26)

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hereditary; patrimonial; handed down from generation to generation

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Gentoku era (1329.8.29-1331.8.9)

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Genzui

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noble's private quarters

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domain administrative headquarters (early Meiji)

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ground leveling; ground levelling; groundwork; laying foundations

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sunrise

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(arch.) person of high rank; (arch.) nobleman; wife of a nobleman

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Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

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Imperial standard; (fig.) worthy cause

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I; me; oneself; (arch.) you

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nation building

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stranger; outsider

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to manage (all by oneself); to control; to run; to take charge of

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Kogorou

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name of an imperial era (e.g. Heisei, Shōwa); Japanese era name

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permanence; perpetuity

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participation; taking part; consultant; councillor; adviser

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partition; distinction

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becoming a lordless samurai

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Hizen (former province located in present-day Saga and Nagasaki prefectures, excluding Tsushima and Oki Islands)

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to become decrepit; to become senile

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residence maintained by a daimyo in Edo

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various fiefdoms; various domains

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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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Satsuma and Chōshū (clan alliance)

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burning (offer) incense

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Jin dynasty (of China; 265-420 CE); Chin dynasty

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Keiō era (1865.4.7-1868.9.8)

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red-light district; prostitution quarter; geisha quarter

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private-school student

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current master; father of one's current master; minister (of government); noble; (arch.) nobleman's residence

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young lord; successor of one's current lord

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house-sitting; house-sitter; caretaker or keeper (official post in the Edo period)

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inner palace (in Edo Castle); palace's ladies chambers; shogun's harem

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ronin; lordless samurai

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high steward; grand master

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new government; new administration

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to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)

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to be the first

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Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)

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geisha

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rout; collapse

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memento (from a dead person); souvenir; keepsake; orphan; posthumous child

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trust; confidence; credence

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work; book; (a book) by; obvious; striking

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