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With strict living for the next five years _he_ might set matters straight and free the Tayu; and any day _she_ might be bought by some rich country _samurai_ or _go [u] shi_ (gentleman farmer), or be carried off to ornament the _besso [u] _ of some _hatamoto_.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
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He stopped to listen his eye fixed at the time on the long line of wall and fine gate of a _besso [u] - yashiki_ (country villa), evidently of a great lord.
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The villa part (_besso [u] _) of the structure had been left intact, and with much of the park and garden had been secured by favour to Nakakawachi Sama.
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