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New Year's decoration of willow, etc. branches with colored rice balls

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Lauraceae (laurel family of plants)

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Chiri Mashiho (1909-1961)

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resin (from trees); (tobacco) tar; nicotine; sleep (in one's eyes); eye discharge

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medical treatment; medical care

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ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition

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toothpick; skewer (used to cut and hold sweets served at a tea ceremony); toothbrush (orig. made from a thin willow branch frayed at one end)

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gelatinous glue (usu. from animal and fish bones, hide, etc.)

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plaster; patch; ointment; liniment

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Makino Tomitarō (1862.5.22-1957.1.18)

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bark (of a tree)

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how; in what way; how about; questionable

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Litsea cubeba

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Lindera triloba (species of spicebush)

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assent; consent

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old book; rare book; classic; secondhand book; used book

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pronunciation; reading (e.g. of a kanji); way of reading (out loud); interpretation (e.g. of a text); reading

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clearly; distinctly; evidently; definitely

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presenting (to)

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to tie; to restrain; to confine; to bind; to fasten

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as is habit; the way life normally is

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leader; pioneer; guide; leader (in Shugendō)

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internal organs; viscera

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heart; guts; nerve; heart (of something); central part

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to stab; to stick; to pierce; to thrust

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offering (e.g. to the gods); votive offering

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various; a variety of; all kinds of; many; diverse

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to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice

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to offer; to present; to set someone up in a high position; to revere at a distance; to do respectfully

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pure white; snow white

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offering of cloth (rope, paper, etc.)

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general term; generic name

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divine spirit; (Shinto) god; soul (of a dead person); spirit

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to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from

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place where there is a god or spirit; place containing the sacred object of a shrine

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to install; to fit; to (manage to) obtain (someone's agreement, permission, etc.); to get; to patronize (a shop); to buy usually (from the same store)

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certain; sure; definite; reliable; sound; solid

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transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity); communication; delivery; conveyance; transfer; relay

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evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)

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what sort; what kind

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used; second-hand; old; Middle Ages (in Japan esp. Heian period)

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Eurya japonica (species of evergreen related to sakaki)

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substitution

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the north; northward; northern direction; northern part (e.g. of a country); northern district

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common camellia (Camellia japonica)

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sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica); evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)

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song and dance performed as an offering to the gods

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aroma; fragrance; scent; smell

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stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration

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to turn over; to turn (pages); to leaf through (a book, etc.); to tear off; to strip off; to take off

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