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moment's leisure; free minute

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urbanization; urbanisation

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hasty; rash; rushed; hurried; impatient; impetuous

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inconvenient; inexpedient; unfavourable; wrong; improper; objectionable

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to stop; to prohibit; to forbid someone to do something

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neurasthenia; nervous breakdown; concentration (card game involving turning over face-down cards to find identical pairs)

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insane; fanatic

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war literature

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world war

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pause; suspension; rest; stoppage

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approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction

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ten years; decade

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at last; finally; barely; narrowly; just

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Kanto; region consisting of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures; Kanto; north-eastern half of Japan (during the feudal era)

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major earthquake; large earthquake

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famous picture; masterpiece (painting); film classic

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to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to lean on; to put one's weight on

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daruma; tumbling doll; Bodhidharma; prostitute

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sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)

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(move) slowly (e.g. walk); sluggishly; stolidly; ploddingly; heavily

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to stand up; to get up; to rise; to recover; to take action; to start; to make the initial charge

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to begin to dance; to break into a dance

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to go past; to pass; to pass by

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disunity; disharmony

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to weave into; to interweave; to be incorporated in; to be factored in

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this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)

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escape; evasion; flight

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multistoried building

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to comfort; to console; to amuse

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to go away; to become more distant; to fade away; to be estranged

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wrinkle; crease; ripple

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manners and customs; customs and habits

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removal; getting rid of

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nude (figure, painting, statue)

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ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody

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the body; the flesh; the outer man; one's physique

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on the least pretext; at the drop of a hat

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at that time; in those days; at that moment; then

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the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life

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Tenpyō era (729.8.5-749.4.14); Tenbyō era; Tenhei era

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Ugetsumonogatari

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prosperity; glory; splendour; splendor; majesty; luxury

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westward trip; trip to the West

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Kiyomori (shogun)

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Yoritomo

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mannequin

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unmarried woman; Miss; -ess; -ette

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honesty; sincerity; trust; reliance; (religious) faith; devotion

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your; indicates high rank or status; indicates love and respect (usu. for an older person)

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omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing

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