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Yata no Kagami (the eight-span mirror; one of the Imperial regalia)

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Daiji era (1126.1.22-1131.1.29)

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Gionnonyougo

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(arch.) large jewel; (arch.) string of jewels; Yasakani no Magatama (the grand jewel or string of jewels; one of the three Imperial regalia)

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prohibition against hunting and fishing

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Kusanagi no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia); grass-mowing sword

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Iwashimizuhachimanguu

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fishing net

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illegitimate child (usu. of a nobleman)

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to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)

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rebirth in paradise; peaceful death

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dancer (esp. a bugaku dancer)

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civil administration; Bunji era (1185.8.14-1190.4.11)

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(arch.) dancing girl (end of the Heian period); prostitute; tempo in gagaku

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Japanese sea perch (Lateolabrax japonicus, esp. referring to an adult); Japanese sea bass

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to catch fish

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Kiyomori (shogun)

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smell of the sea

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to dance; to perform a dance

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Heiji

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hole; hollow; pothole (road, pavement, etc.)

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(vengeful) ghost; specter; spectre

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leaving one's own house (e.g. when going to war); departure; setting out; starting a new life; starting life anew

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Heike family; Taira family

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inside the capital

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apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize

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building (a temple, palace, etc.); construction; erection

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retired emperor; ex-emperor; former emperor; emperor emeritus

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to receive permission; to leave (with someone's permission); to retire; to refuse; to beg off doing

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to remove; to move out of the way

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official notice; Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace

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age (esp. advanced)

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strange; wonderful; weird; outrageous; mysterious

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cloistered emperor; ex-emperor who has become a monk

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don't be absurd; that's out of the question; nonsense; don't mention it

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Kyoto Prefecture

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unusual; unconventional; mold-breaking; outside the box

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to creep up; to crawl up; to overcome (a bad situation); to rise (after a setback)

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to marry (a woman); to take to wife; to take in marriage

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release (from custody); discharge; liberation; setting free; letting go; letting off

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picking on somebody smaller than oneself; bullying the weak

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knowing

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poor hearing

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the way one talks; one's way of speaking

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origin of a fire

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for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad

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attendant

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male coming-of-age-ceremony; shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)

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villainous; rascally; knavish; (arch.) independent; (arch.) self-reliant

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height (e.g. of summer); peak (e.g. of cherry blossom season); prime (of one's life); (one's) best days; (being in) heat; rut

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