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Kiemon

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Shimanuki

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large Japanese junk

1

Masamune

1

Shouin

1

adult name

1

Mataichirō

1

to live long; to survive

1

miscalculation; disappointment

1

non-payment; default

1

Hyakuta Naoki (1956.2.23-)

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money lent at daily interest

2

late-autumn or early-winter dew; "cold dew" solar term (approx. October 8)

1

dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky

1

practice; training

1

Tatsunoshin

5

"minor heat" solar term (approx. July 7)

1

free food; free meal

1

Nagura

1

to complain about one's hard lot

2

to shrivel up in fear; to tremble in fear; (lit.) one's testicles shrivel up

1

appeal made directly to a senior official without going through formalities

3

Keichō campaign (1597-98; incl. the second Japanese invasion of Korea in 1597)

1

sickle handle; goby minnow (Pseudogobio esocinus); Oriental photinia (species of shrub, Photinia villosa); Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis); Joseph's-coat (species of amaranth, Amaranthus tricolor)

5

Edo-era street merchant who carried wares hanging from a pole, hawking them in the street

1

travelling incognito (traveling); special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito

1

inseparable friend; sworn friend

2

river channel; floodway

2

Younosuke

13

Urao

29

thin strip of bamboo

30

nutrition; nourishment; bringing up; nurture; rearing

1

fortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours

1

Ishiba

1

to blow a conch; to blow a trumpet shell; to blow the war horn

1

financial difficulties; pecuniary embarrassment

1

nobles; the upper class

1

not be allowed; must not

3

without notice; without leave (e.g. absence); unregistered; unreported (e.g. marriage, business, etc.)

1

conversion; refunding; renewal

1

brackish water

1

Masahiro

1

(the likes of) a mere tradesman

1

small stipend paid to dependants of a bereaved family (Edo period)

5

brackish lake

2

core; tang (of a sword, etc.); middle of a nest of boxes

1

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's nationwide land survey (1582 CE)

1

to meet with a crushing defeat

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surface of a rice paddy

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cargo ships that sailed the Japan Sea during the Edo period

3