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indulgence; addiction; infatuation

1

smiling while looking at; enjoying reading

1

all living things; mankind; the people; the world

1

emperor

1

technical term; terminology; nomenclature

1

night mooring

1

lodging house

1

confined to bed

2

the twelve nidanas (continuum of twelve phases that lead to suffering)

1

elephant (Elephantidae spp.)

10

box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building

3

to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve

12

example; simile; metaphor; allegory

1

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

1

peaceful; tranquil; calm; restful

2

religion; religious affiliation; belief; religious activity

2

dim; vague; indistinct; faint; obscure

4

inn

5

monastery; convent; cloister; abbey

1

to prepare; to provide; to set up; to establish; to organize

3

hard-to-overcome obstacle; high hurdle; (lit.) thick wall

1

psychological; mental

2

kneading; gloss; paste (e.g. bean paste, mustard paste); parading of portable shrines and floats at festivals

1

Asian people; Orientals

2

symbolism (19th-century artistic movement)

1

and then; in addition to that; also; even so

1

etiquette; courtesy

1

form (as opposed to substance); formality; method; system; format; mode

2

speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)

1

pedantry; display of learning

1

music for strings; string music

1

woman; girl; daughter; Chinese "Girl" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

1

to perceive; to sense; to take in; to grasp; to feel

3

vegetables pickled in sake lees

1

antiquity; ancient times

8

to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)

4

boo! (sound used to scare someone); ugh (dissatisfaction, aggravation); ulp (consternation)

1

to gaze long at

1

obscene; indecent; lewd; bawdy; loose; improper

1

pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says

2

suppression; prohibition; ban

4

unnatural; affected; studied; forced

3

to succeed; to bear fruit

2

(study of) psychoanalysis

1

deep knowledge; attainments; scholarship

1

molding; moulding; shaping; modelling (i.e. plastic arts); modeling

1

trifle; insignificant thing; (only) this much

1

state of mind; mentality; psychology

3

windings; meanderings; complications; twists and turns

1

even though it is not; despite not

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