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Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435-1490)

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politician; statesman

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eastern mountains; mountains to the east; Tōsandō (area between the Tōkaidō and Hokurikudō); Higashiyama (Kyoto district)

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first Sanskrit alphabet letter; Africa; Awa (old province of Japan); (arch.) prefixed to names to show intimacy

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more and more; increasingly; extremely; very

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Insetsu

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Ikkyū

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abstract

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intellect; intelligence

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to do by the use of

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bare earth (i.e. ground not covered by a roof); open field; outdoors (non-greenhouse cultivation of crops); teahouse garden

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mediation; agency; carrying (germs, diseases, etc.); transmission; mediation (in Hegelianism)

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depths; deep place; bottom (of one's heart)

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rust

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apology

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concrete; material; representational; figurative

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appreciating fully (e.g. work of art)

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all; every

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culmination; conclusion

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enlightenment leads to serenity

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easy-to-understand

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to know one has enough; to be satisfied with one's lot in life

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Okakura Tenshin (1862-1913)

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Kyūmatsu

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professor; teaching; instruction

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to disentangle; to untangle; to break up into pieces; to pick apart; to relieve; to ease

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limit; restriction

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freestyle (e.g. swimming event)

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correct rules

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formula; prescribed form; established formality

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deformity; malformation; strange shape; unusual shape

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Freeform (TV channel)

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emergency

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to hate; to dislike; to avoid; to disregard; to act without regard (for); to be bad for (e.g. dust in machinery)

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far from; anything but; not at all ... but rather ...; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention

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recent past; recent times; early modern period (Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo in Japan)

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middle section of a song (in gagaku or noh)

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modern art

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extraordinary; uncommon

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vigilance; caution; alertness; precaution; being on guard

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originality; creation; invention

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to soak into; to sink into; to seep into; to sink into (one's mind); to be (deeply) ingrained; to be instilled

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accurate; precise; exact; appropriate; apt; right

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rīchi; riichi; declaring that one is one tile away from winning while one's hand is completely concealed; being one step away from victory (or success, etc.)

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to find; to discover; to come across; to be used to seeing; to be familiar with

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I see; that's right; indeed

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Briton; Englishman

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if it's the case

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to purchase; to buy in

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rationality

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