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Mizuno Nobumoto

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Saitou Toshimasa

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Gennosuke

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empty stomach; hunger

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(man's) father-in-law; father of one's wife

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scorching heat; fierce glare of the Sun

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to withdraw from someone's presence; to leave the room

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secret notebook

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having an aptitude (for); having a talent (for)

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to understand; to comprehend

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comparing heights; comparison of statures

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master of the household

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rice granary

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early evening cloud; clouds at sunset

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acting shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)

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gift; souvenir

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large meal; large meals

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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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to press alcohol on someone; to urge somebody to drink; to offer alcohol to someone

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doomed (business, trade, etc.); in a bad state; poor

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excessive; exorbitant

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(acupuncture) needle; acupuncture

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throwing stone; sling stone; slingshot; pellet; pebble; small rock

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vague; unclear; elusive; hazy

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wakizashi; short sword worn by samurai

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food to fill one's stomach; something to satisfy one's hunger

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to dispel; to clear away; to accomplish a goal; (arch.) to make it sunny; (arch.) to make clouds disappear

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treatment; therapy; cure

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dead person

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

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tall, lanky person; bean pole; tall and thin; tall and lanky

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talkative person; gossip

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(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle

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disgrace; humiliation; insult

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peace conference; peace negotiations

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to have a long life; to live a long time

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bamboo spear

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stormy and full of drama; many drastic events in the course of events; full of ups and downs; with many vicissitudes

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to exchange; to interchange

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seal of blood; sealing with one's blood

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possessing full mastery of an art (e.g. Judo); initiation into the secrets (e.g. of an art); full mastership

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to marry (a woman); to take to wife; to take in marriage

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young samurai

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other people's affairs; somebody else's problem

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blind female beggar who sings or plays shamisen

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absentmindedness; dreaminess; simpleton; fool

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Gifu prefecture (Chūbu area)

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pine needle

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castle construction; building a castle; fortification

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to bring up under one's personal care

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