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Vernal Equinox Day (national holiday; March 20 or 21); Spring Equinox Day

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Autumnal Equinox Day (national holiday; September 22, 23 or 24)

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three days

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first day; opening day

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first day of the equinoctial week

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last day; final day

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dawn; daybreak; end; soon after something has ended; beginning (of a new year, month, etc.)

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day and night

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hot; warm; passionate; impassioned; on everybody's mind; on the radar

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just right (time, size, length, etc.)

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due west

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to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued

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Amitabha's Pure Land; Sukhavati

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Amitabha

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pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha); (Buddhist) paradise; Pure Land Buddhism

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to recollect; to remember; to reminisce; to imagine; to guess; to infer

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the other world; the next world; the world beyond; world after death

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adzuki bean-covered mochi; botamochi

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to offer; to present; to serve (food and drink); to offer (to the gods); to set up (before an altar)

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adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)

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uppercase letter; capital letter; large character; large writing; the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big"; huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on August 16 each year

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name; given name; first name

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tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); moutan; wild boar (meat)

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adzuki bean-covered mochi; botamochi

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bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza); dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn); Hagi (city in Yamaguchi)

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rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame

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strained bean paste; smooth anko; fine-grained sweet bean paste

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coarse anko; coarse sweet red bean paste

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obedience; submission; resignation

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to follow; to accompany; to cleave to; to join up with; to obey implicitly; to flatter

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nude woman; naked woman

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to serve God

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songs with samisen accompaniment; musical performance

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dancing; dance

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to be delighted; to be glad; to congratulate; to gratefully accept

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curse; divine punishment; wrath (of an angry spirit)

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wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes

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to grant (request, wish); to answer (prayer); to fulfill (conditions); to meet (requirements)

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mercy; compassion; clemency; Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo

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growing late; latening

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kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes

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taboo; day, time, direction, words, etc. that must be avoided; contraindication

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to commit (e.g. crime); to perpetrate; to break (e.g. rule); to violate; to rape; to violate

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to like; to be pleased with; to be delighted with; to take a liking to; to suit one's fancy

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to fear; to be afraid of

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superhuman

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happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately

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enlargement; increase

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to put to use; to make use of; to turn to account

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remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude

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