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misdeed; wrongdoing; wickedness

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to abolish; to abandon; to repeal; to dethrone; to depose

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China; Chinese

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Zhou dynasty (China, approx. 1046-256 BCE); Chou dynasty; perimeter; counter for laps or circuits

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innocent; naive; unsophisticated; birth-

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Chuuou

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poverty; need; destitution; having great difficulty with; struggling greatly with; being in distress

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origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material

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eternity; perpetuity

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emperor; king; prince

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the shogunate

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having to be; must be; should be; ought to be

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speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal

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fallacy; false report

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to bewilder; to perplex; to puzzle; to tempt; to seduce

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third principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; downward stroke

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niece

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to tell; to announce; to declare; to pass (a sentence); to order

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while it may be true that; just because; nevertheless; not necessarily

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bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

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to stick to; to cling to; to adhere to

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to look away; to turn away

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tongue; tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)

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hereditary occupational group (Yamato period)

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to spit out; to eject; to dump

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gossipy; abusive; critical; jabbering

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Kyoto's children; Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext

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nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty

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one's nature; one's destiny; custom; tradition; habit

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skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath

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to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat

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defeat; loss; failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.); discount; loss (on a sale)

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right?; don't you think?; don't you agree?

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book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter

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boasting; exaggeration

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pepper

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trifling matter; trifle

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to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with

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length; measure; short length

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disposition; inclination; characteristic; sexual disposition; fetish

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middle of a field; middle of a country; field of contest

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15th day of the 7th lunar month; (last day of) Bon lantern festival; mid-year gift; summer gift; Bon Festival gifts

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invasion; incursion; raid; aggression; intrusion; trespass

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ruin; fall; collapse; downfall; bankruptcy

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mutability (of worldly affairs); fleeting shifts and changes (of human life)

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the ruled; the governed

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wig; hairpiece; toupee

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clerical appearance; appearance of a priest; teachings of Buddha; condition of the universe at creation; in the pure land teachings, the name of Amitabha, or prayers to Amitabha

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(dispensation of) free medicine

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kitchen-cum-office of a Zen temple or monastery, where meals are prepared and senior priests have their offices

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