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second-rate; inferior

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third-rate; third-class

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nature; spontaneity; natural airhead

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market; fair

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Chiba (city, prefecture)

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Saitou

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firefly (Luciola cruciata); lightning bug; glowworm

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combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting

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foolhardy courage

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to do an act of benevolence at the sacrifice of oneself

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construction worker; laborer (labourer); navvy

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elbow

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wisdom and self-protection; wise and skilled in the art of self-protection

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to cut one's way through; to tide over; to struggle through; to get over

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wisdom and courage

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stipend; reward

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to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)

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Bandō; former name of the Kantō region

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Sagami (former province located in present-day Kanagawa Prefecture)

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66-odd provinces of old Japan; (lit.) 60-odd states

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observation; survey; watching

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oratory; eloquence

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to dump (e.g. onto the floor); to empty by overturning; to throw out (contents); to tell everything; to reveal everything; to open one's heart

1

to nod; to bow one's head in assent; to agree

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eastern country; eastern provinces; Kanto provinces

2

western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki); western nations (esp. India or Europe); thirty-three temples in the Kinki area containing statues of Kannon (Avalokitesvara); pilgrimage to the thirty-three temples sacred to Kannon

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ronin; lordless samurai

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ancient times

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character; traits; ethos

2

fleeing soldier; warrior fleeing the battlefield; deserter

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muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line

1

kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer

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to content oneself with; to be resigned to (one's fate); to be contented (satisfied) with (one's lot)

1

manly; sportsmanlike; pure (heart, actions, etc.); upright; (arch.) unsullied (e.g. scenery or object); (arch.) pure

1

take up farming again

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respect; esteem; regard

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to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct

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surviving retainer

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winning over; placation; gentle persuasion

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Hachiōji (city)

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guard; watchman

1

wildness (plants, animals, etc.); uncouth; rough; unpolished

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avenue in the capital; busy main street of the capital; main thoroughfare

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fear; dread; fright; willies

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heroic

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Sagittaria trifolia var. edulis (edible variant of threeleaf arrowhead)

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rural local self-government (Muromachi period)

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irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial

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narcissism; self-absorption; self-intoxication

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to sound shrill (of a voice); to sound high-pitched and excited; to get excited; to become restless; to be thrown too high; to come in high

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