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Munemori

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Emperor Go-Toba; Go-Toba Tenno (1180-1239 CE, reigning: 1183-1198 CE)

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Shigemori

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all living things must die

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man from eastern Japan (esp. Edo or elsewhere in the Kanto region)

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Tokuko

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Tomomori

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sal (tree) (Shorea robusta); saul; Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)

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Jetavana Monastery (India); Jetavana-vihara

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imperial garments

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woman bestowed with the title "in" (usu. the empress, imperial princesses, etc.)

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even the prosperous inevitably decay; sic transit gloria mundi; all that's fair must fade

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to kneel and worship

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third son; Occella iburia (species of poacher)

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shrike (any bird of family Laniidae); bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus); butcher bird

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the Emperor's person or presence

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morning and evening; all the time

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1,000; one thousand

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mother

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Kiyomori (shogun)

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celestial world; heaven

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to change; to shift; to come and go

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to offer; to present; to set someone up in a high position; to revere at a distance; to do respectfully

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scattering; leaflets; sushi rice in a box or bowl with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on top; writing in an irregular hand

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abdication

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rower; oarsman

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Amitabha's Pure Land; Sukhavati

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all things must pass; all worldly things are impermanent

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happiness in the next world

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sweep of the tide; drift of the tide; tidal current

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short spring night

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cloistered emperor; ex-emperor who has become a monk

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sidelocks; hair at the temples

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Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)

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chest; coffer; rice tub; lidded round, wooden container for cooked rice

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person who has spent X years after graduating high school attempting to get admitted to (a specific) university

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Yoshitsune

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3000; three thousand

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honorific affix; honorific prefix

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hand; arm; handwriting; penmanship; 'shake' (command to have a dog place its paw in your hand)

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uncertainty; transiency; impermanence; mutability

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a little more

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miserable; wretched; lonely; dreary; shabby; comfortless

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to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship

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Heike family; Taira family; The Tale of the Heike; chanting of the Heike Monogatari

4

passing on to the next life; death; giving up a struggle; submission; being at one's wits' end; being flummoxed

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to struggle in the water; to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe; to (nearly) drown; to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to be addicted

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wig; hairpiece

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diviner; sorcerer; exorcist; medium

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to envision how things will turn out (usu. unfortunate); to have foresight; to be able to see the future

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