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to wait for one's chance; to wait for an opportunity

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October; tenth month of the lunar calendar

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August; eighth month of the lunar calendar

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magnificent; grand; fair; square; grandly; boldly

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firm; trading company

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personnel (of public building)

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doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion

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harbor entrance; harbour entrance

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to meet; to greet

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prisoner (of war)

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chase; pursuit; tracking; following up; tracing

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to check through; to thoroughly investigate

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inside the harbour; inside the harbor

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all over; everywhere; in every nook and cranny

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to turn; to revolve; to visit several places; to function well; to pass a certain time

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magistrate's office

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difficulty; trouble; accident; disaster; fault; defect

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one person; another name; nickname; alias

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hostage

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fuel and water; firewood and water; gathering firewood and drawing water; kitchen work; housework

2

stopping a ship; detention; quarantine

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to burn down (to the ground); to clear away by burning; to reduce to ashes; to burn off

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magistrate of Nagasaki (Edo period)

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Matsudaira Yasuhide (?-1808)

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defense; defence; guard; policing; security

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being on duty; person on duty

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Saga (city, prefecture)

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setting on fire; setting afire

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in name only; titular; nominal

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peace; tranquility; tranquillity; (arch.) happy-go-lucky

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unnecessary; unneeded

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correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with

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to pocket an insult; to choke back one's tears

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quiet; calm; easily; comfortably; distant; far-off

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village

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(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy

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suicide

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chief retainer; daimyo's minister

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seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

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feudal lord; daimyo

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Nabeshima Narinao

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being blocked (and contained); reduced circumstances

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(one) matter; (one) item; (one) case

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being settled; coming to a conclusion

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two years before

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the preceding year; the previous year; last year

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Russia

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Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands); Edo-period realm of the Ainu (as opposed to the Japanese) comprising most of Hokkaido

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to behave violently; to commit violence; to use force

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outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state

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