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pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas

2

to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)

1

polite; courteous; hospitable

2

return; restoration

1

slave trade; white-slave trade; human trafficking

3

trader; dealer; businessperson; fellow trader; people in the same trade

3

news (from somebody); letter; contact; (somebody's) whereabouts; (somebody's) movements

1

utterly (unknown; esp. of someone's whereabouts); completely; (no information) whatsoever; at all

1

to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant

1

heir; heiress; inheritor; successor

1

eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son

3

livelihood; subsistence; business; trade; profession

2

counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun

3

to place (in position); to fix; to install; to seat (someone); to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)

3

in order to; for the purpose of; must; should

1

immediate follower (of the shogun)

1

promotion; raising of status

2

because; the reason is; if you want to know why

2

for generations; hereditary; generation after generation

1

Kouichi

1

tribe; clan; (taxonomical) tribe; group (of the periodic table)

1

service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services

2

to carry on one's shoulder; to shoulder; to bear; to bear (burden, responsibility, etc.); to take upon oneself

1

relatives; one's family; friends; members of the same organization; followers; henchmen

2

to choose; to select

1

house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family

5

descendant; posterity; offspring

1

my; our; one's own

2

surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance

5

the two views (of an object) referring to the same thing; being inseparable like the two sides of an object; two sides of the same coin

1

I; me

12

secret; secrecy; mystery; secret (e.g. to success); esoteric teachings

2

ancestor

1

Kamakura shogunate (1185-1333)

1

beside a nobleman; close aid (of a nobleman, etc.); place where a high ranking person resides; one's own city (of a shogun, lord, etc.); place under one's direct control; one's own turf

1

Bhaisajyaguru (buddha able to cure all ills)

1

(religious) faith; belief; creed

1

Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral

2

priest soldier; warrior monk

1

to be called ...; to be referred to as ...

3

lie; rye; rai (Algerian music style)

1

disease; -pathy

1

poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty

1

group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants); non-human

1

to live; to reside; to inhabit

1

(medical) treatment; care; therapy; cure; remedy

2

to give (time, money, goods); to donate; to do; to perform; to apply (processing, makeup, etc.); to add (e.g. ornamentation, annotation)

1

power struggle

1

history

3

someone working behind-the-scenes; scene shifter; lady consort (to a high personage)

1