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Houtokuji

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baton twirler

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famous historic spot; family name; professional name

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sleeved quilt; futon with sleeves; cotton padded nightwear

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situation (turn of events) being favorable (advantageous)

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zooming

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Kanetsugu

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monopolizing; monopolising; monopolization; monopolisation

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Houzouin Inshun (1587-1648)

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Sonbo

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being on stage when the curtain opens; wooden floor; wooden-floored room; thinly-sliced food grilled on a cedar board

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sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword); rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony

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non-voter

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freedom of association

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hornet; yellow jacket; wasp (of subfamily Vespinae); Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia); yak-killer hornet

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maneuver to draw a sword from its scabbard and cut immediately

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golden dolphin

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posthumous name (based the deeds one has performed in their lifetime)

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Corinthian order (building style)

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narrow victory

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fecundity; having many children; abundant production

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decagon

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Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis var. scabra)

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Swim cap

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formidable person; shrewd person; certain person (e.g. whose name cannot be disclosed); someone; (arch.) that sort of person; (arch.) that kind of person

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Araki Mataemon

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huge rock; massive boulder

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aerobics

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to one's heart's content

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knife attached to the sheath of a sword

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all phases

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crest of the Sanada clan (featuring six sen coins, trad. to pay for crossing the Sanzu River)

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Sha Wujing; Sandy (character from the Chinese novel Journey to the West)

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marching band

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free-for-all; open-to-all; optional (to participate in); non-compulsory

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grey starling (Sturnus cineraceus); gray starling; starling (any bird of family Sturnidae); bumpkin; gullible person; sixty-nine (sexual position)

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Ietsuna

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to be discouraged (from doing something); to have one's enthusiasm dampened

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counterattack; striking one's opponent immediately after defending an incoming attack

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new mat

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feudal system of the shogunate and domains

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miso soup

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breast; rounded part on the upper end of shamisen neck

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nerve fiber; nerve fibre

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submission (wrestling, judo, etc.)

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(arch.) Mahito (highest of the eight hereditary titles); you

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non-Tokugawa daimyo

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halterneck

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wildfire

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iron hammer; (fig.) crushing blow

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