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Zeami

2

net; netting; web

1

advance (into a new market or stage of progress); launching (a new career or venture); expanding (into a new market); stepping forward; emerging

1

ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples; rice dance; rice festival; tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso; turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-tofu on both sides

2

to pass (a car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to outdistance

1

posterity; future life; life to come

1

noh play

5

contour; outline; summary; outline; looks; features

1

peach (Prunus persica)

1

well

1

babysitting; babysitter; protecting; keeping; keeper

2

circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle

1

style of recitative dance popular during the Muromachi period (often with a military theme)

1

renga poet

6

relief; aid; help; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace

1

urgent; pressing; immediate; urgently; promptly; at once

1

Tsukuba

1

neck of a horse

2

new form; new formula

1

plaything; toy

1

flavour; flavor; taste; charm; appeal; interest

1

sense of beauty; aesthetic sense

1

few decades; many decades; several decades

1

Ashikaga shogunate (i.e. the Muromachi shogunate, 1336-1573)

1

arbitrariness; despotism; high-handedness; tyranny

1

full force

1

a decline

1

altitude; height; elevation; high-degree; high-grade; advanced

1

colouring; coloring; shade (of colour); flavour; nuance; feel

1

from ... to; between ... and; or

2

grant; allowance; endowment; bestowal; assignment; conferment

1

beauty

1

with one's own hands

1

person of doubtful origin

1

taking something as absolute truth; regarding something as absolute

1

regarding as sacred; apotheosis; deification; sanctification

1

dramatic (improvement); remarkable (difference); marked; (far) better; exceptional

1

to deepen; to heighten; to intensify

1

pleasures of a pious life; entertainment for or dedicated to a deity or Buddha; pastime; entertainment; free admission

1

oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.; hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute)

1

person of rank; person of status; ranked official

1

falling heavily (of rain, snow, etc.)

1

military commander

1

reception

1

daimyo (Japanese feudal lord)

2

magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification

1

if that is the case; if it becomes so; when it becomes so

2

newcomer; tyro

1

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

1

flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda

1