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hereditary; patrimonial; handed down from generation to generation

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Genzui

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domain administrative headquarters (early Meiji)

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ground leveling; ground levelling; groundwork; laying foundations

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Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

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Imperial standard; (fig.) worthy cause

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nation building

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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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partition; distinction

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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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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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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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high steward; grand master

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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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rout; collapse

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

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feudal lord; daimyo

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hermit; recluse

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rice ball

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Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)

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to excuse oneself; to take one's leave; to quit; to resign; to decline; to turn down

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to stay overnight; to stop (e.g. at a hotel)

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brown coal; lignite

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to jest; to joke; to play the fool; to act indecently; to be silly over; to talk foolishly

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in swarms; crawling with

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reformation; revolution; renewal; Meiji Restoration

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major powers of the world; great powers

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what I want to say is ...; the fact of the matter is ...; none other than ...

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pine grove

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capture; takeover; hijack; skyjacking

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stinging hair (of a nettle, caterpillar, etc.)

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executive secretary; coordinator; organizer; person in charge of making arrangements

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haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae

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plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice

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to gaze at; to fix one's eyes upon

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learning; study

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