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Poria cocos (species of basidiomycete used in Chinese medicine)

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dried citrus peel (esp. of a satsuma mandarin) used as seasoning and in traditional Chinese medicine; chenpi

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to beat a hasty retreat; to turn tail and run away; to take to one's heels

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captain

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Toragorou

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sable (Martes zibellina)

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to make a hasty escape; to flee helter-skelter

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bear's gall (used as medicine for the stomach); bear's bile

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crow dipper (Pinellia tuber); 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day

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staying in the same inn or hotel; rooming together

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Kiso valley section of the Nakasendo

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thin strip of wood smeared with sulfur, used to light a fire

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Edo-period business taxes

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Hisayoshi

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hand-operated electric generator (used in Edo-period medical treatment); (arch.) electricity

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secret notebook

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ritual visits to a temple

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indigo dye

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I'm telling you this for your own good; here's some friendly advice

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to carry in one's pocket; to own; to take; to carry about

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Hiraga Gennai (1728?-1779)

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ball of dried, ground, fermented dyer's knotweed leaves

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five most important temples of a region

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large, high mountain

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sleight of hand

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Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

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to pickpocket; to steal

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three-stringed guitar

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pulmonary tuberculosis (in traditional Chinese medicine)

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sedan chair bearer; palanquin bearer; sedan chair business

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strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern; Naruto (city in Tokushima); Naruto Strait; Naruto wakame

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both; many; various; together

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trouble with women

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increase; addition

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eight trigrams; divination signs; divination; fortune-telling

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begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

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Tokushima (city, prefecture)

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pickpocket

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one's last moments; hour of death

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it's been a long time; long time no see

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to hang oneself; to strangle oneself

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heaven; paradise

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free-loader; hanger-on; parasite; house guest

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don't do anything rash!; keep composed!

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not knowing at all (that); without the slightest idea (that); completely unaware (that)

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nonsense; silly talk; drivel; rubbish

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fleeing; escape

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sesame seeds; sesame (Sesamum indicum)

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seal of blood; sealing with one's blood

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midway; halfway through; in the course of

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