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consistency; coherence; one kan (approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb); one piece of sushi

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the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho)

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target; object (of worship, study, etc.); subject (of taxation, etc.)

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outside world; physical world

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as much as one can; as much as possible; if at all possible

1

to copy; to imitate; to counterfeit; to forge

1

realism; depicting realistically; representing accurately

4

colour; color; complexion; skin colour; look (on one's face); expression; appearance

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originally; by nature; from the start

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portrait

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primitive; crude; archaic

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ten; 10; ten years of age

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society; company; the public; the world

1

outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else

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in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se

1

strict; close; precise; scrupulous

4

numerator; molecule; member; element

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exercise; physical training; appeal; campaign; motion; movement

4

meeting up; gathering; assembly; set

2

red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful

2

right; right-hand side; afore-mentioned (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); foregoing; forgoing

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left; left hand side

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bluish; tinged with blue

1

to be tinged red

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therefore; and so; for that reason; accordingly; consequently; hence

5

having vague fears; feeling alarmed; feeling gloomy (about the future); feeling apprehension

1

much more; not to mention; not to speak of; to say nothing of; let alone

1

still more; to say nothing of; not to mention; still less

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painter; artist

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major festal song (subgenre of the Shi Jing)

2

to go; to come

2

name of a mountain

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peak; mountain

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nuance

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to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except

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we

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not less than; ... and over; beyond (e.g. one's expectations); above; above-mentioned; aforementioned

3

to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show

3

Expressionism; representationalism

3

to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that

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chest; breast; breasts; bosom; heart; lungs; stomach

5

tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber

1

to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

1

mountain and water; landscape (containing hills and rivers); landscape picture; mountain stream; water that flows down from a mountain; garden which contains an artificial hill and a pond

1

like; as if; the same as

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violent emotion; passion; fury

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the third

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Bergson

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pulsation; pulsatory motion

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no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than

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