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growth; development; one's early life; upbringing; personal history

1

to abbreviate; to omit; to take; to capture

1

interest; entertainment; pleasure; implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)

4

Yamato-e (classical Japan decorative paintings)

1

school; sect; party

1

clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect

1

valuation; appraisal; evaluation; appreciation; recognition; acknowledgement

1

painter; artist; painter supported by patron

1

to strike against; to collide with; to encounter; to meet; to clash

1

pains; hard work; effort; trouble; labour; labor

3

spirit; heart; disposition

1

I can tell you; heh

2

negligent; neglectful; careless; remiss

1

to accept; to receive; to agree

1

(fine) art; the arts

2

indeed; really; absolutely; truly; actually; very

2

wordly things; common customs; the world; the (common) people; secularity

1

to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake

3

detached; aloof; indifferent

1

self-confidence; confidence (in oneself)

1

fault; defect; flaw; failure (in an examination); failing grade

1

to misunderstand

1

obedient; meek; docile; honest; frank; upfront (about one's feelings)

1

reflection; reconsideration; introspection; regret; repentance; remorse

1

having a wife; marrying (a woman); marriage

1

minimum; (very) least; at least some (comfort, etc.); only (consolation, saving grace, etc.); sole

1

to stay up all night; to spend the night without sleep

1

Tsukuba

1

dropping; unloading; grated vegetables, fruit, etc.; grater; using new tools (or clothes, etc.); new tools (or clothes, etc.)

1

big river

1

large hand drum

1

hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds); place near the mountains

1

very hungry; starving; ravenous

2

to walk about; to walk around; to walk to and fro; to pace around; to wander

1

how can (one) do something

1

being preoccupied with; being obsessed; only thinking of; having only ... on one's mind

1

blindness

1

public bath; bathhouse

1

tumor; tumour

1

being closed; being blocked up; being occupied; unlucky direction (in Onmyōdō; due to the presence of a god such as Ten'ichijin)

1

before ... days (months, etc.)

1

to subsist; to keep on living

1

being able to do as one pleases; doing at will; pothook

1

daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision

3

may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

1

day of month; counter for days

2

size; large and small (sizes); various sizes; daishō (matched pair of long and short swords); large and small drums; long months and short months; sic bo (Macao dice game)

1

unit of measurement for cloth breadth (30-38 cm)

1

occasional; infrequent; rare

2

sixth day of the month; six days

1