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gossip; rumor; rumour

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sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment

3

Inou Tadataka (1745.2.11-1818.5.22)

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... or something (like that); ... or whatever; so-called ...; a certain ...

1

elaborate; delicate; exquisite

1

miniature; miniature figure; miniature model

3

link; linking; link; hyperlink; linking (of object files); linkage

1

operating together; working together; being linked (to); being tied (to); being connected (with); interlocking

2

gum; rubber; eraser; condom

1

to be blown off; to be blown away; to disappear; to vanish; to rush; to hurry

1

madness; insanity; irregularity; deviation; fanaticism; fanatic

1

to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated

2

all-purpose; utility; universal; all-powerful; almighty; omnipotent

1

image; figure; figure; form; image

1

to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully

4

application (of a rule, law, method, etc.)

2

all; altogether; entirely; exactly alike (e.g. in appearance); spitting image of; identical

1

stone statue

1

genre; category; kind

1

if anything; conversely; putting it the other way around; coming at it from the opposite angle

5

to add (to); to add on; to append

2

golden ratio

1

in history; ever; historical

1

engraver; carver; sculptor

1

enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten

5

Edo shogunate (1603-1867); Tokugawa shogunate

1

to have an interest (in)

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Seabold; Siebold ((Philipp Franz Balthasar von) Siebold, scientific explorer of Japan)

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to sell off; to sell completely

1

details; particulars; longitude and latitude; warp and weft; warp and woof

1

at that time; in those days

1

rangaku; study of Western knowledge through the Dutch language during the Edo period

1

academic; scholarly; scientific

1

informal; unofficial

1

valid; proper; right; appropriate; reasonable

1

no matter for; without regard to; whatever the ...

1

conclusion (of an argument, discussion, study, etc.); conclusion

6

warp (fictional faster-than-light spacecraft propulsion)

1

may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

2

black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market

1

to sell over to

2

occasion; time; circumstances; (in) case (of); when

2

manual; instructions; guide; specification document; specifications; blueprint

1

half the number; half (of an amount); haploid (organism, cell, etc.); haplont

2

to follow; to pursue; to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one; to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)

4

it cannot be that ...; it is highly unlikely that ...; it is impossible that ...

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in addition

1

cutting to pieces; tearing to pieces

2

Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)

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in; on; at; during; in the condition of

1