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first day of the month; (arch.) first ten days of the lunar month

1

peace; tranquility; tranquillity; (arch.) happy-go-lucky

3

continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence

4

public affairs; the court; the shogun; the shogunate

1

Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation

99

hollow; cavity; sunken place; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) female genitalia

2

world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign

5

New Year

1

grand ceremony

1

major company; big company; front castle gate; force attacking the front of a castle

5

dismounting

1

to sweep; to brush; to clean; to gather silkworms

1

manly; sportsmanlike; pure (heart, actions, etc.); upright; (arch.) unsullied (e.g. scenery or object); (arch.) pure

1

rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse

1

one long cylindrical thing; one film, TV show, etc.; one version; one book; a certain book; ippon; one point

13

to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to record (e.g. a fact); to retain

1

dawn; daybreak; event (e.g. "in the event of ..."); occasion; occurrence

2

dawn; daybreak; end; soon after something has ended; beginning (of a new year, month, etc.)

1

seven; seven years of age; four o'clock (old time system)

2

family; clan; sect; school; group of related sumo stables

2

successive generations; hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)

4

daimyo (Japanese feudal lord)

2

3000; three thousand; many

1

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

4

all kinds of things; various things; large number of people

2

government official

10

successively; one after another

2

worship

1

calling on; visiting

7

long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)

2

catalogue; catalog; inventory; certificate indicating an impending gift

1

presenting to

1

large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university

29

medium-ranked councillor in the Department of State

1

participation in government; state councillor (in the ritsuryo system); state councilor; vice-minister (early Meiji period); Cabinet Councillor (1937-1943); Cabinet Councilor

1

lieutenant general; vice-admiral

1

fifth court rank; black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax); night heron; five ranks; five stages

1

various; many; several

2

high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine

2

class; order; et cetera; etc.; equal; iso-

7

clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.

3

pride; self-confidence; thinking highly of oneself; being proud of one's abilities or achievements

1

territory (of country, feudal domain, etc.); (arch.) counter for suits of clothing, sets of armor, etc.

1

apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal

6

to make a decision; to draw a conclusion; to give a judgement; to hand down a verdict; to let go down; to lower; to do oneself

13

rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)

2

clear broth soup, with ingredients and garnish floating in and on it

2

tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony

4

equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)

7

white paper

1