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to offer; to present; to set someone up in a high position; to revere at a distance; to do respectfully

3

fighting to avenge someone's death; battle of revenge

2

poor; pitiful; piteous; pitiable

7

opinion; view; purport; tenor; meaning; point

1

one life; one's life; one order; one command

1

teacher and student

2

friendly feelings; fellowship

1

to taste; to eat; to drink; to speak (of); to put into words; to refer (to)

1

martial arts; military arts; Bushido

2

reason; logic; method; system; order

1

to conceal (oneself); to hide; to abscond; to deceive; to dissemble; to fool

1

to escape to a safe place; to make one's getaway; to effect one's escape; to make good one's escape

1

escape; getaway; evasion

2

or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean

1

to disappear; to vanish; to abscond; to decamp

2

(something) so small; so little; trifling

2

this sort of; of this kind; of the sort; such

2

wild beast; wild animal; brute

2

villainous; rascally; knavish; (arch.) independent; (arch.) self-reliant

2

unreasonable; irrational; outrageous; absurd

1

to act (a part); to play (a role); to perform (a play, etc.); to put on (a production); to commit (e.g. a blunder); to disgrace oneself

1

we; us; I; me; you

1

disgrace; shame

2

the Monkey (ninth sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Monkey (around 4pm, 3-5pm, or 4-6pm); west-southwest; 7th month of the lunar calendar

1

laughingstock

1

be that the case, do so; do as you please; in any case

1

the teacher's home

1

extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out

1

dispersion; separation; scattering; breakup

3

(one's) shame and public reputation; (one's) sense of shame and concern for appearances

1

the whole body; the five styles of writing Chinese characters; the five parts of the body (head, two hands and two feet; or head, neck, chest, hands and feet)

6

to build; to construct; to erect; to build up (a reputation, position, fortune, etc.); to establish (a relationship, household, tradition, etc.); to lay (a foundation)

1

lament (song); elegy; dirge; Lamentations (book of the Bible)

1

bowstring; string (of shamisen, guitar, violin, etc.); bail (arched pot handle); diagonal levelling wire across the top of a masu

1

warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown

5

chestnut (horse coat color)

1

Iga (former province located in the west of present-day Mie Prefecture)

3

thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara; thousand-armed Kannon

1

tenmoku; ceramics (esp. tea bowls) with a dark glaze that resembles oil spotting; tenmoku tea-bowl; dark-glazed conical tea-bowl of Chinese origin

1

many; a lot of; a great number of; numerous

1

censor; overseer; inspector (Edo period)

1

police sergeant (Edo period); low-ranking samurai who assisted daimyo or prominent military commanders (Muromachi period)

2

pleasantry; joke; tomfoolery

2

to chant (a noh text)

3

babysitting; babysitter; protecting; keeping; keeper

1

special; particular; peculiar; unique

1

irregularity; anomaly

1

good times; boom; (wave of) prosperity

1

to be fickle; to be frivolous; to be flippant; to be flighty; to be giddy; to be restless

1

political

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