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pure and good; unmixed and of high quality; good-natured; genuine; wholesome

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Japanese translation

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tale; narrative

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first person

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autobiography

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before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand

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love; attachment; adoration

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history and biography; historical material

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flatly rejecting; curtly refusing; beating easily; defeating handily; a kick

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love of one's hometown

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to say; to state

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consciousness; becoming aware (of); awareness; mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)

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existence or nonexistence; presence or absence; consent or refusal; yes or no

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in spite of; regardless of

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to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one

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merely for form's sake

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as time goes by; as time went by; with the passage of time; over time

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young person; youth; young

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young nobleman; scion of a noble family; princely young man; man with an aristocratic air

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mere; only; just; slight

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eboshi; black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan

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extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings; curing illness

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daring; brave; bold; valiant; intrepid; dauntless

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to try to (do); to want to; to be about to (do, happen)

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mixture; blending; complication; crossing; intersecting; interlacing

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Kamon

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's house; 's home

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family name; lineage; birth; clan

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evening

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painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh

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human pillar; human sacrifice

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Takehi

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away from home; while travelling

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early

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younger sister

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dice; die; baton (of command)

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female; smaller (of the two); weaker; (arch.) woman; (arch.) wife

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mono no aware; appreciation of the fleeting nature of beauty; pathos of things; strong aesthetic sense

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incident; affair; happening; event

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emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness

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to lament; to grieve; to regret; to deplore

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calm; serenity; tranquillity; tranquility

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to put back; to return; to vomit; to throw up; to recover (of a market price)

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objectivity; objective; object (philosophical)

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skill; workmanship; dexterity; quality

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before one's eyes

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look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting

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collection of short Heian period tales in the form of poems

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spiritual realm of humanity

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quiet; calm; leisurely; distant; far-off; boundless

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