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Sunpu (old name for Shizuoka City)

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to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)

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Kawasaki (city)

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to get carried away; to become over-excited; to push one's luck; to push a good thing too far

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latest style

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government-general

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simultaneous; all at once

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laughingstock; butt of ridicule

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settlement (of affairs); remedial measures; cleaning up afterwards

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nonsense; silly talk; drivel; rubbish

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Yamaoka Tetsutarou

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seeing; looking at

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whip; lash; scourge; stick; cane; rod

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

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loyalty; sincerity; allegiance; fidelity; integrity

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long-handled Chinese spear; lance; weapon; arms; grip of a bow; parade float decorated with long-handled Chinese spears

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dying in vain; useless death; meaningless death

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cruel; merciless; pitiless; tragic; horrible; terrible

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to kill each other

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exchange; conversion

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if so; if it be so; in that case; then

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Tokaido (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

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mountain road; mountain trail

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

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thank you (for the meal); that was a delicious meal

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to be well-known

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empty; vacant; hollow

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change for the better; improvement; looking better (than before)

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flattery; compliment

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completely; thoroughly; horribly; without exception; until there's no untouched (undamaged) part

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to smash; to crush

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means; is; as for

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along the river; riverside

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highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)

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road approaching a shrine

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to lie in wait (for); to be on the watch (for); to wait (for); to watch (for)

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sign; signal; cue

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religion; cult

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to go through; to pierce; to run through (e.g. a river through a city); to pass through; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out

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posterity; future life; life to come

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field hospital

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British person

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Wiliam; William

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medical care; medical treatment

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assistant; helper; assistant (to a professor)

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surgery; surgical procedure

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Western medicine

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diffusion; spread; popularization; promulgation; familiarization

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north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku

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Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky

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