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Izu Islands

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common ancestor

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Ryukyuan (person)

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identical; same; one and the same; fair; equal treatment; without discrimination

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ancestor; forefather; foremother

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you could say; you might say; verging on the

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closing years (period, days); last stage; end stage; terminal (e.g. cancer, disease, etc.); final

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Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)

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exile; banishment

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military commander

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Tametomo

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to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)

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Ryukyu; chain of southwestern Japanese islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture

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royal family

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Shunten

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present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times

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unthinkable; unexpected; outrageous; offensive

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to laugh (something) off; to dismiss with a laugh; to pooh-pooh

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erratic; offbeat; wild; extraordinary

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falsified history

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appropriate; suitable; proper; fitting

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on the sea; surface of the sea

4

site; point on a map; spot

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ocean current

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small; narrow; familiar prefix; slightly; a bit

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conical hat (East-Asian style); coolie hat; something shaped like a conical hat or an umbrella; shade (of a lamp); mushroom cap

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original; primitive; primary; fundamental; raw

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Kuroshio Current; Japan Current

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ancient times; distant past; antiquity

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badness; evilness; bad; evil

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transmission; propagation; spread; circulation; diffusion; dissemination

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doctrine; rule; principle; -ism

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poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite

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armchair theory; impracticable theory

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"natural funeral"; returning a dead person to nature (esp. through the scattering of ashes)

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simple; plain

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cremation

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wrong impression; subjective impression; assumption; prejudice

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to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to

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East Asian evergreen forest culture (theory)

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category theory

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to take out; to carry out; to bring out from where it belongs; to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject)

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doesn't amount to doing (something); not significant enough to require (something); unnecessary

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natural condition

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outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state

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(not) in any way; (not) at all; (none) whatsoever; what kind of

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difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

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to bend; to wind; to twist; to zig-zag

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to turn reddish-brown; to turn rufous; to become discolored; to become discoloured

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with a clatter; with a rattle; empty; bare; raspy (voice); gravelly; with a gargle

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