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to whisper; to murmur; to rumor; to rumour

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sign; signal; cue

2

obedient; meek; docile; honest; frank; upfront (about one's feelings)

1

Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker

1

grave; solemn; serious; harsh (e.g. truth); hard; strict

1

to become decrepit; to become senile

1

solemn (ceremony, atmosphere, etc.); austere; grave; majestic; dignified; stately

1

to perceive; to sense; to take in; to grasp; to feel

1

by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly

1

grandparents

2

sense of reality

1

brothers and sisters; siblings

1

near oneself; close to one; familiar

1

in turns; alternately; in order

1

that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there

1

to become settled; to be fixed

1

look; glance; sight; summary; list; table

1

standard gojūon syllabary order (aiueo, etc.)

1

lodging; putting up

1

flight; desertion; escape

1

obese body; corpulent physique

4

market; fair

1

invasion

3

one more; another; the other; not quite; not very good

1

being defeated; being eliminated (from competition)

3

twenty-eighth day of the month; twenty-eight days

5

Asano Nagamasa (1547-1611)

1

armed struggle

1

raid; assault; attack

1

provincial capital (under the ritsuryo system); provincial office; public place of imperial rule

1

retirement (from work); leading a quiet life (after retirement); retired person; retiree; surrendering headship of the family (pre-WWII)

9

fee; charge; rate; material

1

suffixed to words indicating a class of people to create a plural (esp. in impolite contexts)

1

interest; entertainment; pleasure; implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)

2

(head priest of) temple formerly led by founder of sect; temple in which resided a member of nobility or imperial family; (head priest of) Honganji (temple in Kyoto)

1

return to secular life; secularization; secularisation

2

carrying out one's duties; ruling a fief; ruling a territory given by one's liege; territory given by one's liege; fief

1

grant; allowance; endowment; bestowal; assignment; conferment

1

traveling about to gain skill in combat (travelling)

1

departure from the capital

1

decayed tree; rotted tree; decayed wood; obscure, meaningless life (metaphor)

1

moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly; rolling about

1

to get along; to add (one's own concordant voice, etc.)

1

May; fifth month of the lunar calendar

20

nineteenth day of the month; nineteen days; (arch.) fool; (arch.) simpleton

4

Nobukimi

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Iga (former province located in the west of present-day Mie Prefecture)

3

escape; evasion; flight

1

on purpose; deliberately; intentionally

1

unobstructed view; perspective; forecast; outlook; insight; foresight

1