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glory; splendour; honour

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ancestor; forefather; foremother

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ancestor

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monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook

7

to agree

1

intention; aim; design

1

scholar

1

that is to say; so that means

1

scorn; disdain; contempt

1

that is; namely; i.e.

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people who lived in Kyushu in ancient times, and who opposed the state of Yamato

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Yamato race

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ancient history

1

people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos

1

after that; afterwards; thereafter

5

accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation

1

heave-ho; oops; yes; yeah

6

to surpass; to outstrip; to excel

1

to become; to amount to

4

there is a tendency; there is a possibility

1

outstanding; excellent; exceptional; preeminence; distinction; extraordinariness

1

beautiful woman; (a) beauty

4

lasciviousness; lechery; salaciousness; lust; sensuality; lewdness

1

Tales of Ise

1

indeed; really; truly; very much

1

(physical) appearance (of a person); one's face and figure

1

to sell

5

capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light); location of the Imperial Palace

1

to become (a state, condition, etc.)

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shamisen; samisen; sanxian (Chinese lute); three string instruments (in gagaku; biwa, wagon and sou); three-stringed instrument

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kokyū; 3 or 4-stringed bowed Japanese musical instrument; any Asian string instrument played with a bow

2

breathing; respiration; knack; trick; harmony; balance

2

profit; advantage; benefit; rebirth in paradise, entering nirvana

1

to dry

2

another idea

1

to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do

1

to kick; to refuse; to reject; to stamp (on the ground); to firmly press one's feet (against something)

1

visit to a temple or shrine; worship; pilgrimage

2

he; him; boyfriend

2

equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)

2

round coin with a (square) hole in the center; coin made of non-precious materials; money

10

pitching ability; counter for pitches

1

credit; money owed on an account; bill; hot noodles in broth; proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price); in the midst of; rest

1

rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)

2

rainfall; snowfall; alighting; descending

1

fog; mist; spray

1

like; as if; the same as

8

awe; fear; dread; fright

1

variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; 300 tsubo (991.74 meters square, 0.24506 acres); six ken (10.91 m)

3

to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander

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