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letter bearing the shogun's scarlet seal; seal stamp given to worshippers and visitors to shrines and temples

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Hitachi (former province located in the major part of present-day Ibaraki Prefecture)

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growth; breeding; growing up (in, as); upbringing

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trade; business; occupation; profession; job

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to wait expectantly; to await in anticipation

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affair; state; verdict; sentence; directions; orders

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to apologize; to apologise

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long time; long interval; for quite some time

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abruptly (rising); slowly (rising); plump; rotund

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to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen

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sensation; feeling; tendency; propensity

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to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than

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to catch sight of; to come into view; to happen to see

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cruelty; hard-heartedness

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to pry; to prize; to prise

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leaving something where it is; abandoning something

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speaking of; (I told you) already; come on

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to tuck up (e.g. skirt); to abridge; to cut short

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summer festival

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to play accompaniment; to keep time; to cheer; to applaud; to jeer; to mock

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musical instrument; music; accompaniment instruments used in kabuki (excluding the shamisen)

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heave-ho!; heave!

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cone (e.g. pine, hemlock)

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to go past (a place or thing); to go beyond

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desperate

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conspicuously; noticeably; remarkably; especially; particularly

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quick-tempered; impatient

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white background; blank; female virgin

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large; large-sized; large-scale; big

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yukata (light cotton kimono worn in the summer or used as a bathrobe)

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one shoulder exposed (e.g. because one sleeve of the kimono is undone)

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to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)

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several (objects, usu. from two to six)

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bell (often globular)

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kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper)

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under one's arm; (in) the armpit

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to wave one's hand

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six codes (constitution, civil code, criminal code, commercial code, code of civil procedure, code of criminal procedure); Compendium of Laws

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saw-edged perch (Niphon spinosus)

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audience; spectator; spectators

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citizen; citizenry; city inhabitant; townspeople; bourgeoisie; middle class

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to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off

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printing

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struggling; pawing (e.g. horses' hooves)

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edition; version; plate; block; editions of a publication

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sumi; India ink; squid ink; octopus ink; carpenter's inking string

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to get dry

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one thin flat object; one sheet

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paltry amount of money; cheapness; worthlessness; three one-mon coins

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two sheets (pieces) (of paper)

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