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Nagatsune

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product

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military science; strategy; tactics

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wide; extensive; comprehensive; far-reaching; widespread

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Satou Nobuhiro

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the powers that be

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promotion; raising of status

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forcefulness of speech; influential voice

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counter for rules; rule; regulation

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hospitality; reception; treatment; (light) refreshment; entertaining with food and drink; treat

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wealthy merchant

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Imai

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Soukyuu

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Soueki

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return present; return gift; something done in return (as way of thanks); retaliation; revenge

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to manage (all by oneself); to control; to run; to take charge of

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palace visit

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Emperor Ogimachi; Ogimachi Tenno (1517-1593 CE, reigning: 1557-1586 CE)

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to grow old; to age

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unique thing; best on earth

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to roar; to reverberate; to be well-known; to be famous; to palpitate; to throb

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production (e.g. play); direction

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pouring one's energy into; focusing one's efforts on; concentrating on; committing oneself to

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feeling of tension; air of tension; tension; nervousness

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home position; origin; usual place (for something)

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small door which leads into a tea ceremony hut

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ordinary person; member of the general public; non-celebrity

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to bow; to bow one's head; to apologize; to apologise; to bow to; to yield to

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preeminence; excellence; superiority; transcendence

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Ujisato

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harmony, respect, purity and tranquility; the four most important elements of the tea ceremony

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attitude; manner; behaviour; attitude (towards an issue, etc.); position; stance

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seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

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regret; repentance; remorse

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family property

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child from previous marriage; child of a former spouse; stepchild

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Shouan

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Soutan

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three noble families (Kan'in, Kazan'in, and Nakanoin or Koga); three branch Tokugawa families (Owari, Kii, and Mito)

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3000; three thousand; many

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self-conceit; pride

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to chastise; to punish; to discipline

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absolute secrecy

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torture in which the victim is bound and placed in a tub of snakes

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torture

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to have rumors going around (rumours); to have rumors spread

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Kanemi

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Lord; Sir; state minister (under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) you (in reference to someone of lower status)

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regarding as an enemy; treating as an enemy

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faked information; bogus intelligence; disinformation

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