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sweet crescent-shaped confection of pancake-like sponge cake filled with adzuki paste; Chinese dumpling; Chinese steamed bun

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Fujimoto

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stamp pad holder

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Kanetsugu

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square (shape); (in a castle) rectangular space between the inner and outer gates (where troops can gather)

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far beyond one's power; not at all equal; no match for

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the daimyo of a feudal domain owned by a Tokugawa family branch

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both

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good (place to leave off); convenient

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deck chair

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incessant working; working non-stop

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phenomenon

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Sonbo

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dawn

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everyone; everybody; ladies and gentlemen

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Tsuyuhiji

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Khitan people; Khitai; Kitan; Kidan

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art of using a naginata

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to estimate

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high time; about time

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Sandayuu

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body cavity

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Yoshihiko

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local dialect; vernacular; provincialism

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as one pleases; irresponsibility; free-for-all

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Minamibōsō City

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moron; idiot; stupid person

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hook-shaped; bent at a right angle

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deeply indented coastline; rias coastline

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exhibition match

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princess; spoiled girl; hothouse flower; glue

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daruma otoshi; toy consisting of vertically stacked wooden blocks that must be knocked away without letting the daruma doll on top fall to the ground

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old times; antiquity; former years

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Ragaraja (esoteric school deity of love)

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denominational doctrine; doctrine of a sect

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to steel oneself to; to brace oneself

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digestive enzyme

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naked to the waist

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large-pupilled; dark-eyed; having large irises

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going around in circles; circling a temple; roll-call vote

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Momoyama period (latter half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1583-1600)

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free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)

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storage room; storeroom; closet; grayish blue

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Deep Blue

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splashing (water)

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writing in India ink

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to cut apart (cloth, paper, etc.)

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owlet moth (members of the family Noctuidae); noctuid

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carefree; free from worry

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street-level store; shop facing the street

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