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to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect

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to accompany; to go with; to go together

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separate; respective

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on top of a tall building; balcony; upper floor

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Higo (former province located in present-day Kumamoto Prefecture)

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cause; factor; hetu (direct cause, esp. as opposed to indirect conditions); the basis of one's argument (in hetuvidya)

5

mountain castle

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promise; agreement; convention; rule; destiny; fate

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eight o'clock

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Kido Takayoshi (1833.8.11-1877.5.26)

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attendance

1

writing oneself; self-recording

2

inn; hotel

1

to meet; to assemble; to gather; to encounter; to run into

1

approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction

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hour; o'clock; (specified) time; when ...; during ...

2

house; building; roof

1

still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least

2

next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to

3

means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull

4

to want; to desire

1

secondary residence; vacation home; villa

1

Tsushima (former province located on Tsushima Island in present-day Nagasaki Prefecture); Tsushima (island)

1

angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)

2

friend; acquaintance

2

that kind of; such a

4

a few hours; several hours; about two to six hours

1

gravesite; tomb

2

pile; heap; counter for things that are stacked, piled up (or layered, etc.); layers of clothing worn under one's overcoat; combination of colors created by layering of garments (colours)

3

good luck; fortune

1

providential protection

1

chief; main; principal; important

2

Matsusuke

1

Saeki

1

edge; angle; ridge (e.g. of a mountain)

2

good fortune; happiness; blessing; good luck

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younger brother (of an older brother); younger sister (of an older sister); youngest child; young; younger; young and beautiful

3

Teizou

3

Hikotarou

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tall tree

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Emon

3

Dioscorea tokoro (species of wild yam); old man living in the countryside

3

(arch.) I; (arch.) me; (person having) thin or shaved eyebrows; affectionate suffix for names of young men or pets

3

Ishikawa (prefecture)

4

Junjirou

2

full moon; moon on the 15th day of the month (by the lunar calendar); full moon of the eighth lunar month

3

Matajirou

2

lowly people (Edo period); eta

1

Sakuma

1

(ancient) Japan; Yamato (former province located in present-day Nara Prefecture)

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