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to make (something)

14

hakama; man's formal divided skirt

20

samurai costume; old ceremonial costume; top and bottom; up and down; high and low

2

sales; selling; marketing

2

kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan

2

playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)

4

always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively

37

cloth made from kudzu (Japanese arrowroot) fiber (fibre)

2

state (US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. Canada); continent; (arch.) dear

24

even now; still; as yet

57

hair (on the head)

10

shoji (paper sliding door)

6

folding screen

1

folding screen

2

ornament; decoration

2

how much; something over; and something; however (much); no matter how

17

sparse; distant (of a relationship); estranged; alienated

2

to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress

31

burr (e.g. chestnut); bur; cupule; case

2

bark (of tree)

5

coarse cloth

1

to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)

52

Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)

2

illustration; diagram

1

Ainu

1

halibut (esp. the Pacific halibut, Hippoglossus stenolepis)

1

pressure; force

1

private house

2

to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)

4

agriculture

20

technique; art; skill; move

8

similarly; same (idea); same (name)

8

Shinshū (alt. name of former Shinano province)

32

grain; cereal; corn

10

bag; sack; skin of an orange (and other like fruits); dead end; plot of land surrounded by water

7

good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial

39

Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei); Chusan palm; hemp palm

2

dark red; dark brown; reddish brown

1

foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land

2

bow and stern

1

axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem

2

Mr (junior); master; boy

4

uneasy; unsure; unreliable; untrustworthy; (arch.) nervous; (arch.) impatient

2

name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext

100

source; origin; cause; beginning; genesis

19

Engi-Shiki (set of ancient Japanese governmental regulations)

3

omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing

4

the four seasons

12

Shinano (former province located in present-day Nagano Prefecture and parts of Gifu Prefecture)

6

the same book; the said book; ibid.

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