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separate case; another matter

2

(verbal) message; sending word; (arch.) excuse; (arch.) pretext

2

palace visit

4

rickshaw; jinrikisha

12

medical affairs

1

defense capability (defence)

9

sightseeing; tourism

5

office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)

3

television program; TV program

1

boarding (a train, bus, etc.); getting into (e.g. a taxi)

1

one machine; one vehicle

1

hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing

5

single seater (e.g. boat, aeroplane, airplane)

1

whether one likes it or not; inevitably; unavoidably; compulsorily; by force

3

close adhesion; sticking firmly to; relating closely to; having relevance to; contact printing

2

swelling; bulge; puff

3

good evening

1

narrow escape from death

1

inexhaustible supply

1

castle (in place names); castle; fortress

49

samurai costume; old ceremonial costume

1

ahead; further on; beyond (this place); before this; prior to this; earlier

1

inside of a castle; area surrounded by castle walls

11

son-in-law

5

severe famine

2

gentle; mild-mannered

4

humanity and justice (esp. in Confucianism); virtue; duty; formal greeting (between yakuza, street vendors, gamblers, etc.); (gang's) moral code

7

father-in-law; foster father; stepfather

6

to create a debt in one's favor (e.g. by doing someone a favor); to create an obligation in one's favor

3

favorable; favourable

14

(sense of) rivalry; competitiveness

1

squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii); Lepisorus thunbergianus (species of fern); color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue); ancient women's hairstyle; clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern

32

to learn by hearsay

3

bloodshed

2

noble class; nobility

7

Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568 CE); Sengoku period; Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE); era of vicious competition

1

to cut; to slit

2

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)

7

sawing; death by sawing (i.e. as a capital punishment)

5

one's body alone; having nothing except one's body; just oneself (with no belongings)

4

skill; dexterity; master hand

2

one sen; one-hundredth of a yen; small amount of money

4

above the ceiling

4

to soften; to moderate; to relieve

3

to change the subject (e.g. away from something awkward or inconvenient)

4

wearing a sword

1

drawing a sword; drawn sword

2

emperor; shogun; honored person (honoured); (another person's) wife

1

(noble's) page

7

good-looking man; fine figure of a man

1