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chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox

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Hirosaki (city in Aomori)

4

best time to see

2

cherry blossom viewing; flower viewing

4

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

1

order; turn; sorting; obedient; docile; submissive

1

mawashi; belt; mantle; cape; gang rape

1

beam running between columns in traditional Japanese architecture, esp. within Japanese-style rooms

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framed picture or motto (usu. horizontal, hung over gates or lintels)

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Nakagawa Kazumasa (1893.2.14-1991.2.5)

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dictation; verbal statement

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waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

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Chinese poem; Chinese poetry

1

treetop; tip of a branch

1

remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude

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Yorimasa

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horseback; riding

1

white hair; grey hair; gray hair

2

multi-

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(dead) body; corpse

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counter for places

1

under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side

1

again; once more; also; too; on the other hand; while; and

3

how; in what way; how about

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Date Masamune (1567.9.5-1636.6.27)

2

to be left blooming; to remain on the stem

1

bank; coast; shore

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kerria (Kerria japonica); Japanese yellow rose; bright golden yellow; gold coin (formerly used in Japan)

1

this

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to tower above the rest; to be by far the best; to be prominent; to be outstanding; to be a cut above

1

military commander

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to favor; to favour; to show favor to; to show favour to; to be partial to; to be a regular customer of

1

crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)

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counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi; counter for articles; indicates possessive (esp. in place names)

1

house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building

1

suicide

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passing away; death; dying words; death poem (poem written during one's final moments)

1

Umeki

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fence; paling; railing; (arch.) fortress

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interest (on a loan, deposit, etc.)

1

the end; the extremity; the limit; the limits; the result

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yes; yea; aye; (arch.) to be so

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melee

1

(in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of; (at) the height of

3

one tanka; one poem

1

pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas

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rise and fall; ups and downs; welfare; vicissitudes

1

eager; earnest; strenuous; fervent; assiduous; with utmost effort

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anguish; mortification

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Masamune

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