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taking food directly from a communal dish with one's own chopsticks

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padded spear (for practice)

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liaison and coordination

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confections adopted from Portugal, Spain, etc. during the Muromachi period and since Japanized

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Ken'ichirō

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enemy of Buddhism

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mashed rice pressed on a cryptomeria skewer and toasted (used as dumplings in soups)

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short-lived rule; being in power only for a brief period; brief championship

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marrons glacés

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sticky (situation); finding oneself trapped

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security; guarantee; collateral (e.g. mortgage)

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one may well say so, but ...; even more than

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something that smells of fish or blood; meat and fish; degenerate monk; corrupt priest

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sweetener (sugar, honey, saccharin, maltose, etc.); sweetening agent; sweetening

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Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist uprising (Muromachi and Warring States periods)

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breaking wind; fart

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vassal; attendant

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main or important road; influential or important position; the authorities

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The Pillow Book (by Sei Shonagon)

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spiny lobster (esp. Japanese spiny lobster, Panulirus japonicus)

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Enryaku era (782.8.19-806.5.18)

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this or that person; anybody; many people

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whole army; entire army

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ruler of the whole country; person who holds the reins of government

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on what business

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territories in the vicinity of the capital and under direct imperial rule; (in Japanese history) the five kuni in the immediate vicinity of Kyoto

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of no concern; nothing; trivial; (lit.) not even a fart

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to raise an army

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unification of the whole country

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beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...

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Mt. Hiei (in Kyoto)

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Tōhoku region (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku region

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Settsu (former province located in the northern and central parts of present-day Osaka and the southeast of Hyogo prefectures)

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head temple; this temple

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to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud

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to hasten one's death

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Awa (former province located in present-day Tokushima Prefecture)

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very strange; odd; queer

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mistaken memory; trick of the memory; slip of the memory

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why; how

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taste; smooth talking; reception; hospitality

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(arch.) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (arch.) South-East Asia; (arch.) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions

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person who prefers sweet things to alcoholic drinks; person with a sweet tooth

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sap

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progress

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to slay; to kill

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emergency; crisis; imminent danger; Vulnerable (conservation status); VU

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to defy; to disobey; to rebel against; to oppose; to resist

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does not match (one's, its) appearance

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to show; to display

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