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old age; advanced age

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Sunpu (old name for Shizuoka City)

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(Meiji era) official responsible for court ceremonies

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Yoshii

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Kōsuke

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state secrets

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councillor; councilor

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sharp and able person

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movement to overthrow the shogunate (mid-19th century)

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I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ...

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stimulus; stimulation; impetus; impulse; excitement; thrill

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at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else

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war; battle; hostilities

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large cloth sack; baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising)

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Buddhist ritual

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professional gambler; gangster; gang member; good-for-nothing; ne'er-do-well; hoodlum

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to steal; to rob; to deceive; to trick; to graze (in passing); to skim; to appear and quickly disappear (a thought, a smile, etc.)

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to domineer; to throw one's weight around; to lord it (over)

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to share (life's) joys and sorrows (with); to share the good and the bad (with); to stick together through thick and thin

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earth (color, colour); ashen; deathly pale

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one's nature or personality; inherent; innate

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century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time

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to be thrilled; to be excited

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joy

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to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar

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morning and evening; daily routine; to spend all one's time doing; to do day in, day out; all the time; always

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historical; traditional; historic

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to approach the year end; to be jammed tight

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the New Year begins; the New Year starts; to end (e.g. apprenticeship, service)

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New Year's Day; first day of the year; New Year's morning; morning of New Year's Day

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(arch.) peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu); provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city); brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan); foreigner; barbarian

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white sandbar; white sandbank; area in a garden or entrance of a house laid with white sand or pebbles; gravel separating a noh stage from the audience; (arch.) court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand

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with an extreme cold (i.e. temperature); lonelily; lonesomely; (acting) coldly (toward someone)

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(arch.) chinaberry; (arch.) Japanese bead tree (Melia azedarach); light purple outside, green inside; purple outside, light purple inside; type of garment layering color scheme, worn in April and May

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Earth Dragon (5th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1928, 1988, 2048)

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in a good mood; cheerful

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to listen repeatedly; to listen again; to ask a question in return; to ask again; to ask for a repeated explanation

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sending to the rear (esp. a soldier); evacuation from the front; sending later

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to get impatient; to become irritated; to fret; to chafe

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advance party; advance team; advance group; vanguard unit

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Higashihonganjibetsuin

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Toba

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Kyoto and Osaka; Kyoto-Osaka area

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national road; national highway

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earnestly; immediately; exactly

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the direction of Kyoto; Kansai area; citizens of Kyoto; nobles

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piercing (cold); biting (wind)

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to boil down; to concentrate (soup, milk, stock, etc.); to reach a conclusion; to conclude a discussion

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telescope

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vista; distant view

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