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attention; giving one's attention; focusing

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1,000; one thousand

3

diction; grammar; syntax; usage; wording

1

interphase; interkinesis; midcycle

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evasion; avoidance; shirking; recusation (of a judge); taking exception (to a judge); challenge

1

negligence; disregard

1

Japanization; Japanisation

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kana; Japanese syllabary (i.e. hiragana, katakana)

1

woman's handwriting; hiragana

2

woman (writer, artist, aviator, etc.)

2

Japanese literature

1

advanced; developed; seniority; senior; superior

1

she; her; girlfriend

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hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking

2

sharp; keen; acute

1

waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

1

personal letter; epistolary style

1

polishing (e.g. essay); revision; elaboration; refinement; improvement

1

accomplishment; execution

1

literature

4

renga poet

1

dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation

1

criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach

1

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

1

personal history; career

3

rainbow

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tedium; boredom; ennui

2

grass; weed; (arch.) ninja; not genuine; substandard; LOL

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right lobe

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Mya (Algeria)

1

to become inverted; to become reversed

1

exceptional; unusual; extraordinary; unprecedented; singular

2

native Japanese reading of a Chinese character; precept; lesson; one's teachings

5

ancestor

4

exemplification; illustration; example

2

to send to; to deliver; to escort (a person) home

2

archeologist; archaeologist

1

hard to say; inexpressible; hesitant to say; embarrassing; delicate

1

arsenic (As)

1

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

3

great teacher (i.e. a buddha, bodhisattva or high monk, esp. Kobo Daishi)

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walking; going on foot

1

to steal; to plagiarize; to steal (a technique, idea, etc.); to do stealthily; to do during scant time; to steal a base

2

fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes); fox (i.e. a sly person); soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu; light brown; golden brown

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Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama); Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto); fox (said to be messengers of Inari); fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes); inarizushi

7

daimyo (Japanese feudal lord)

1

to fetch; to go and get

1

several people; some people; a few people; a number of people

1

Shingon sect (of Buddhism)

2

eleventh month of the lunar calendar

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