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to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with

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various countries; various regions; various provinces

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training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices

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here and there; everywhere

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chief priest (of a Buddhist temple)

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Hitachi (former province located in the major part of present-day Ibaraki Prefecture)

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on the sea; surface of the sea

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pupil; disciple; adherent; follower; apprentice; young person

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for some years

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about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite

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countries

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islands

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ambition; the Buddha's great vow (to save all people)

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fulfillment; fulfilment; realization; realisation; completion

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to run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)

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simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated

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shintai; object of worship believed to contain the spirit of a deity, typically housed in a shrine

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innumerable; countless; numberless

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to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death); to bequeath

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ninety; 90

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advanced age; old age

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to die peacefully; to have lived a full life

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meat eating; eating of meat; meat diet; carnivorous

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gourmet food; delicious food; dining on gourmet food; following a lavish diet; living as an epicure

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to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)

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vegetable diet

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to come to (in the end); to end in; to attribute; to blame

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eating cooked food

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religious mendicancy; asking for alms; monk's begging; going with one's bowl to the meditation hall at mealtime (in a Zen temple)

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moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly; rolling about

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foliage; leaves of trees

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hunger; starvation

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thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters); Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes); sliver (strand of loose fibers)

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and; and then; thus; and now; and finally

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negative; minus

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Buddha; Buddhism

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Mutsu (former province located in present-day Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate, and Aomori prefectures)

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end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap

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Sado Island (Niigata); Sadogashima

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palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign

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(center portion of a) scroll (centre)

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Sado (former province located on Sado Island in present-day Niigata Prefecture); Sado (island, Niigata Prefecture)

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to stake; to risk; to bet; to wager

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nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets

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one tanka; one poem

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nine levels of Amitabha's Pure Land; Amitabha's Pure Land; nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land

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on the roof; court nobles

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to be titled (e.g. a book); to be named

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region south of Tokyo on Pacific Ocean side of Japan; eastern sea; East Sea (Korean name for Sea of Japan)

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western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki); western nations (esp. India or Europe); thirty-three temples in the Kinki area containing statues of Kannon (Avalokitesvara); pilgrimage to the thirty-three temples sacred to Kannon

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