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to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)

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however; but

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effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving

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empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless

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to make an enemy (of); to antagonize

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to fear; to be afraid of

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to make a decision; to draw a conclusion; to give a judgement; to hand down a verdict; to let go down; to lower; to do oneself

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loyalty to the emperor

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farewell poem; death poem; poem written during one's final moments

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winter

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sea; ocean; waters

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to throw oneself (into an activity)

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suicide by drowning; drowning oneself; entering the water; hitting the water

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to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on

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clothes; garment; gown; robe; coating (e.g. glaze, batter, icing)

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to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

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follower; attendant; valet; servant

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to take home; to carry home; to bring back home; to take out (e.g. food)

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Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period

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Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)

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big; large; great

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undulation; winding; meandering; swell (of waves); surge; billow

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trifling with; toying with; playing with; tossing about (a ship)

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early evening cloud; clouds at sunset

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fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)

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possessing full mastery of an art (e.g. Judo); initiation into the secrets (e.g. of an art); full mastership

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Gennosuke

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begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

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to be enthralled by; to be disguised as

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style; manner; way; after (period of time) again (e.g. meeting again after a year); for the first time in (period of time)

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future (usually near); prospects

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to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge

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congratulation; celebration

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daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)

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Zeami

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difficult to ...; hard to ...

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house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family

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extinction; discontinuation; severance; rupture; to become extinct; to cease to exist

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crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch

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to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to call for; to summon

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overturning; capsizing; overthrow (e.g. of a government)

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seal of blood; sealing with one's blood

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form; shape; state; condition; letter; correspondence

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strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern; Naruto (city in Tokushima); Naruto Strait; Naruto wakame

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secret notebook

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to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for

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Awa (former province located in present-day Tokushima Prefecture)

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to; towards; for

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to begin a trip; to depart; to embark; to die; to pass away; to depart this life

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but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that

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