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strange; wonderful; weird; outrageous; mysterious

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device; instrument; vessel; container; ability; capacity

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spurious article; forgery; counterfeit; imitation; sham

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Jinno Shotoki (Succession of Imperial Rulers in Japan, historical treatise by Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1339)

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Kinkata

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calendar; almanac

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outline; summary; roughly; generally; great ingenuity; excellent resourcefulness

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strategy; stratagem; trick; scheme; plot

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affinity; feeling of closeness (with someone); feeling of kinship

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genuine article; real thing; real deal

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completely; absolutely; (not) at all; (not) a bit; earnestly; intently

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being concerned about or mindful of

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abdication

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coat; tunic; jacket; outer garment

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with this I (formal); by this I (formal)

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proof; evidence; sign; to testify (usu. Christian religious context)

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use; service; purpose

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to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember

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traditional; from ancient times; formerly

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custom; practice; convention; precedent

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tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); disposal (e.g. weaponry); annulment; cancellation; reversal (of an original ruling)

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there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)

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imperial throne; the Crown

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descendant; posterity; offspring

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to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to ascend (the throne); to accede; to start (on a journey); to commence

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qualifications; requirements; capabilities

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investiture of the Crown Prince

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solid body; three-dimensional object; multi-storey car park

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fourteenth day of the month; fourteen days

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harmonious; peaceful; happy; amicable; smooth; free from trouble

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outside world; physical world

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weather; look of the sky; situation; turn of affairs; signs

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December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar

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New Year's pine decoration

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bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)

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somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why

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sunset; sundown; end; close; year-end; end of the year

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summer solstice

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starvation; famine; hunger

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oh!; ah!; oh dear!; good grief!; dear me!; thank God!

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something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow; anyhow; one way or another

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New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

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scorched earth

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living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet

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effect; efficacy; omen

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to speak ill of; to disparage

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fortune; riches; goods; incorporated foundation

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imperial palace; person living in the imperial palace (esp. the emperor); festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress

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relation; connection

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tribute

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