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You can gather more food here
than up in the mountain highlands.
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Then last spring, the farm house
was suddenly abandoned.
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There were no signs that
anyone would be moving back in...
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...so we decided to move in
and make it our new home.
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Because of this,
we had a wonderful time living there.
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It was like a dream,
to be able to live in a house with a yard.
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But one day...
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We don't normally fight over territory,
but now things are different.
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No matter where we went to feed,
we ran into the other packs.
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Fights over nests
and other skirmishes occurred.
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And then...
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In the autumn of 31st year of Ponpoko,...
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...the final battle between
the tanuki of Tamakyuro...
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...occurred at the construction site
bordering Suzuka and Takaga Forest.
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The chief of the Red Army was Gonta,
the great warrior of Takaga Forest.
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The elder leader of Suzuka Forest,
Seizaemon, was chief of the White Army.
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Now it is a little-known fact
that all tanuki stand upright...