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business card

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polite; respectful; reverent

1

business; trade; operations; sales

1

general manager; director-general

1

media

1

section manager; section chief

1

something broad and flat; common; ordinary; low-ranking employee; freshman

3

manor; villa

1

counter for flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper); (arch.) counter for positions or roles; (arch.) counter for food portions (now only gyōza and soba); counter for ranking level

1

by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)

2

director; executive; officer; official; person in charge

1

Kotani

1

counselor; counsellor; adviser; advisor

1

at that time; in those days

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to rendezvous; to meet at a prearranged place and time; to arrange to meet

2

hindrance; intrusion

2

your house; your home; your husband; your organization; you

2

ancient Japanese martial arts

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dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)

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fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)

3

originally

2

ninja arts

7

to be descended from; to be drawn from (the tradition of); to be derived from; to follow the school (tradition) of

1

martial arts; military arts; wushu; modern sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts

6

to be of use as a reference; to be helpful

1

notice; attention; observation

2

quick; rapid; swift; satisfactory

1

to bring up a subject; to touch on a matter

1

cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat

1

(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely

3

Kiso Yoshinaka

1

to serve; to work for; to attend

1

Yoshinaka

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to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy

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

3

to run away; to escape safely

1

twelve; 12; queen (playing card)

2

century; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)

1

to knit; to plait; to braid; to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit

5

alias; pseudonym; pen name; nom de plume; different name; other name

1

to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study

2

nature of the locality; character of a place; local colour; local color

1

Shinto; Shintoism

1

regret; chagrin; mortification; freedom from obstructive thoughts

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Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period

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Katsura Kogorou (1833-77)

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Shinsengumi; Edo period police and military force dedicated to suppressing anti-shogunate activities

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duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck

1

Shinpachi

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(art of) fencing; swordsmanship

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