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after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years

2

early in the morning

4

swimming

3

inkstone

2

Buddhist ritual implements (esp. altar fittings)

1

to pierce; to penetrate; to sting (wound or sensitive area, etc.); to smart; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice)

2

payment; bill; sweeping; clearing away; sweeping stroke (e.g. when writing kanji)

2

this city

1

dissipation; prodigality; debauchery

1

swimming

2

to fall ill; to suffer from (e.g. a disease); to have something wrong with (e.g. an inner organ)

2

number two; mistress; concubine

3

cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless

1

cloudiness; cloudy weather; fog (on a mirror, glasses, etc.); cloud (e.g. in marble); gloom; dejection

2

sleep; sleeping; inactivity; death

4

washing; sashimi chilled in iced water

3

tool; implement; means; furniture

3

compilation (of a text); editing; volume (of a text); completed literary work

3

Kitaazumigun

2

a bath; bathing

3

wheat straw; barley straw

2

lamp; light

2

to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)

3

peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade

4

people; citizens; subjects; folk

2

ornament; decoration; figurehead; leader without real power

10

counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.

1

to pass (of time); to elapse

1

being still half asleep; being half awake; being not yet quite awake

1

3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma

1

irrigation water; water for fire; city water; cistern water

1

to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in

2

the same prefecture

1

marsh land; swamp

1

silk tree (Albizia julibrissin)

3

time; appointed time

1

silk tree (Albizia julibrissin)

8

eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building

4

throwing in; tossing in; insert (in a newspaper, book, etc.); free-style flower arrangement

1

stop

2

illustrated news magazine; pictorial

2

advantage; benefit; profit; interest

3

(skin) boil

2

midnight; dead of night

1

Watarase

1

tumor; tumour; swelling

2

tumor; tumour; swelling; boil; abscess

4

sleepiness; drowsiness; the sandman; Morpheus

3

Utsunomiya (city in Tochigi)

2

in so doing; when you do so; in this regard; on this occasion; some time during that period

4