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Katsunoshin

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Yuugorou

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Hagi ware; Hagi pottery

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treaty of peace and amity; peace treaty

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this will just be a short note; I'm writing to tell you

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recent work

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state prohibition

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Abeshikibu

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to compose a haiku poem

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the wise and the foolish

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reverberatory furnace

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arson; incendiarism

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moon over a mountain

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15th day of the 8th lunar month

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bride; one's daughter-in-law

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to reach an extreme; to reach a limit; extremely; to be stuck; to be in a dilemma; to be decided

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being imprisoned; being sent to prison

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one may well say so, but ...; even more than

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petition; memorial

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surmise; guess; inference

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to arrive; to reach; to adhere; to insist on; to put on; to wear

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barbarians; aliens

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to repeat; to be frequent

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Kogorou

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to pluck (e.g. a fruit, a leaf); to pick; to tear off (e.g. a ticket stub, a branch from a tree)

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to harbor ill feeling

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to arrest; to apprehend

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(nothing) but a little

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dressing oneself; personal grooming

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becoming a lordless samurai

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pardon; remission; amnesty

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to grapple

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care of (e.g. address on letter); c/o; encouragement; bringing around; stimulant; tonic

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head

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opinion in writing; written opinion; argument

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residence maintained by a daimyo in Edo

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phosphorescent light; mysterious lights on the sea; sea fire

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arts and sciences; liberal arts

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Meiji Restoration (1868)

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don't be absurd; that's out of the question; nonsense; don't mention it

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to devise an elaborate plan; to exercise one's ingenuity; to work out a scheme

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to let an opportunity slip

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rice cultivation; rice crop

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elderly nobleman

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doctor's rounds (in hospital)

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private-school student

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to shun; to avoid; to ostracize; to neglect; to distance oneself from; to give the hard shoulder

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in addition; besides this; twice

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black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market

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shipbuilding

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