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new road

1

ringing of a bell; bell ringer

1

fellow; mutual; companion; comrade

1

nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web

1

street performer (comedian)

2

group; flock; crowd; wide expanse (of flowers)

1

to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport

1

counter for temples

9

head temple; this temple

2

cheap lodging house

2

every person; each one; everybody

2

I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal

2

religious-fund soliciting; Buddhist preaching

2

diminutive; dwarfish; pygmy; narrow (e.g. thinking); small

1

beggar; begging

1

play; drama

2

fool; idiot; simpleton

5

lightweight fabric or clothing; silk gauze; thin silk; Latin (language)

5

sutra; Buddhist scriptures

4

mock Buddhist sutra; type of fast-paced humorous singing mimicking the chanting of a Buddhist sutra, usually with lyrics satirizing current events; ahodarakyō

1

falsetto

3

messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)

3

about the same; about equal to; close match

1

Nekohachi

1

sand; grit

2

Kamakura (city)

2

occasion; time; section (of a literary work); paragraph; season; term; principle

2

(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown

2

fighting windmills; tilting at windmills; mimicking a wrestling match by oneself (as a form of street performance, etc.)

1

slipping out the back way with swindled goods

10

left; left hand side

18

Emon

1

Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)

4

Chinese person; (arch.) foreigner

1

to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give

1

graveyard; cemetery

1

great god; gracious deity; miracle-working god

2

Ujiyamada

15

strength; power; proficiency; ability

1

training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices

1

in the city

5

propagation (e.g. a religion); proselytizing; missionary work

1

dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia

2

Hiroshima (city, prefecture)

4

10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various

11

1,000; thousand

10

counter for jewels in a watch; counter for transistors, diodes, etc. in an electronic product

14

Ihachi

7

stock-in-trade; tools of one's trade

2

six feet; traditional Japanese G-string for men; palanquin bearer

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