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Romance of the Three Kingdoms (14th century novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong)

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westward trip; trip to the West

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novel written in colloquial Chinese

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Ueda Akinari (1734.7.25-1809.8.8)

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illegitimate child; bastard; love child

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quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty

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adoptive parents

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study of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture; (arch.) provincial school (under Japan's ritsuryo system and pre-Sui Chinese law)

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to get to know each other; to make acquaintance

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literary world; literary circles

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debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh

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to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch

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foster father; adoptive father

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store; shop; establishment; restaurant

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bankruptcy; insolvency

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writing (e.g. as a profession)

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change of occupation; career change

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wood-block printing; publication

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Meiwa era (1764.6.2-1772.11.16)

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Earth Rat (25th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1948, 2008, 2068)

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late spring; third month of the lunar calendar

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moon shining in a rain-cleansed sky

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dim; hazy; vague; indistinct; faint; fuzzy

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second volume (of two); third volume (of three)

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Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa); yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata); Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus); printing block; catalpa bow; catalpa medium

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to stop raining

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hazy; dim; faint; minced fish or meat that is seasoned and fried

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to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged

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study; library; den; home office; reading room

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composition; formation; organization; organisation; compilation

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bookstore; bookshop

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to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in

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smallpox; variola; pockmark; pock

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finger; hands and fingers; hands

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pruning

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queer fellow; odd fellow; eccentric person; crank; oddball; freak

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romance (fiction)

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mystery; curiosity; strangeness; ghost; monster; apparition

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chrysanthemum flower

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sparsely growing cogon grass; short cogon grass

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agreement; affirmative; aye; yes; OK

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Buddha, Dharma, Sangha; The Three Jewels; Oriental dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis); roller (any bird of family Coraciidae); Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops)

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nature; disposition; quality; that which does not change according to external influences

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licentiousness

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attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession

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ghost story

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ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid

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intentionally; deliberately; designedly; especially; particularly

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fear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare

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to gulp down (a drink); to slurp

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