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moderate; reserved; conservative; humble; mild-mannered; self-effacing

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eating strange food; eating bizarre things; simple diet; plain food; eating meat (thus breaking Buddhist rules)

6

ripening (of a crop); crop; harvest

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bark (of tree)

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the five grains (wheat, rice, beans, millet (awa and kibi))

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sermon; preaching; remonstration; scolding; lecturing

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self-conceit; pride

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preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism); preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism); preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism); second highest priestly rank in Buddhism; monk (esp. the head monk of a temple); master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

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to happen to come along

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to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention

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exactly right!; indeed; damn straight

2

Ninomiya Sontoku (1787-1856)

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roots of herbs and barks of trees used in Chinese medicine

1

hunger; starvation

1

townhouse (i.e. house in the middle of a town); traditional townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family

1

too terrible to look at; unbearable to look at

1

desperate measure; expedient of last resort

1

red clay; tuff loam; dark-red paint

1

one shō (approx. 1.8 litres)

2

to dissolve (paint); to scramble (eggs); to melt (metal, etc.); to mix (water with flour, etc.)

1

thick; deep; kind; cordial; abundant

1

the sun

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the sun; sunlight; heat of the sun

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to dry (clothes, etc.); to desiccate

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nama-fu; wheat gluten mixed with rice flour and steamed in large blocks

1

flour; meal; powder; dust

1

to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip of (clothes, rank, etc.); to deprive of; to divest of

1

dried squid; dried cuttlefish; Japanese common squid (Todarodes pacificus); (thing that) grows on one over time

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dried squid; dried cuttlefish; Japanese common squid (Todarodes pacificus); (thing that) grows on one over time

1

jaundice; icterus

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crossing; traversing; traversing horizontally; passing west to east (or east to west); cutting horizontally

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illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane

1

famine relief

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wild; growing wild; living in the wild; (arch.) I

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approval; agreement; support; favour; favor

2

the common run of people

2

at any rate; anyhow; anyway; in any case; because

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Sun Goddess; Amaterasu Ōmikami

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Shennong; mythical king of ancient China

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emperor (of Japan); mikado

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selecting; choosing

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to select; to pick out

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greens; vegetables

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wild grasses; field grass; wildflowers

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weed

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human; humane

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relief measure

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oracle

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dawn; daybreak; Tenmei era (1781.4.2-1789.1.25)

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another village; other villages

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