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surgical operation

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watery grave (metaphor)

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small brazier; hand-warmer

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to imitate; to copy; to mock; to trace; to forge

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Hokurikudō; one of the seven districts of ancient Japan; highway running through the Hokuriku region

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women; maidservant

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Western medicine

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Nizaemon

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the whole nation; all the people in the land

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chloroform

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knowledge applied to evil purposes

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Parkes (Australia); Parks; Parkus

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your younger brother

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Emperor Go-Daigo; Go-Daigo Tenno (1288-1339 CE, reigning: 1318-1339 CE)

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wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman

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wholesale rice dealer

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Tokyo style

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to use as an intermediary; to worry; to mind; to care

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locksmith

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to be understood; to be comprehended; to be grasped; to become clear; to be known; to be discovered

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origin; beginning; genesis; primeval; primordial; primitive

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nobleman's illegitimate child

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Yoshimune

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nailing on; nailing down; being stationary; being rooted to the spot; (price) pegging

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blowing (e.g. of the wind); playing (a wind instrument); player (e.g. clarinet); (pair of) bellows; casting; founding

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one's family temple; temple with one's family grave

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clouds and fog

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to arrest; to capture; to seize

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military drill; training

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to be burned out (of one's home)

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doing ... until one goes bankrupt; doing ... until one goes broke; falling short of (one's reputation); failing to live up to (one's appearance); falling through (e.g. of a plan)

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let me humbly say; most humbly; with all due respect

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field hospital

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

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Awa (former province located in the south of present-day Chiba Prefecture)

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picked troops; elite soldiers; crack troops

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to descend a river

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(festivity) page; baby; child; (arch.) boys kept by pederasts

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Tenpō era (1830.12.10-1844.12.2)

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to slander; to libel; to criticize; to criticise

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envoy; diplomat below the rank of ambassador (e.g. deputy chief of mission, charge d'affaires); minister (of legation)

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government-general

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surgery; surgical procedure

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nonsense; silly talk; drivel; rubbish

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Western-style; foreign; Western-style toilet; flush toilet; water closet

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one soldier

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rustic; unsophisticated; provincial; hick; uncool; unstylish

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strange; odd; unusual

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taking command of a corps in a battle; command exercised by the leader of a group

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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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