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to deepen; to heighten; to intensify

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Kagerou

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brush tip; first on a list; head; chief

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Izumi Shikibu (Poet of the Heian period, included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)

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the Diary of Murasaki Shikibu

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new; unused; new; obvious; natural

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work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production

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dragonfly; damselfly

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woman (writer, artist, aviator, etc.)

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most important work (of a writer, artist, etc.); representative work; masterpiece

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Fujiwara Kaneie

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Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027)

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thereupon; shortly thereafter

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visit; call; arrival (e.g. of spring); advent; news; tidings

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to stop; to cease; to come to an end; to cut off

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one's real mother

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to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck

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legal wife; lawful wife; first wife (in polygamous relationship)

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suffering; distress; hardship; trial

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self; oneself

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inside; interior

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main spindle; main shaft; linchpin; pivot; principal axis; main axis

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women's writing; literature written by women

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wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; (arch.) woman (esp. as a love interest)

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home; family; household

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author (usu. of a particular book); writer

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Fujiwaranomichitsunanohaha

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absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming

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poem (esp. tanka); song; pilgrim's song; pilgrim's hymn; singing a poem or song in a loud voice

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to lament; to grieve; to regret; to deplore

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next (day, morning, etc.); following

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long (time that has passed); old (story)

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(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards

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title; caption; heading

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fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)

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one's station in life; one's personal history; one's circumstances; one's lot; one's destiny; one's future

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so slight as to be all but non-existent

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feeling; sensation; mood; sensation of doing

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to darken; to get dark; to be clouded; to be hidden (behind clouds)

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a verse (e.g. in the Bible); stanza; paragraph; passage; a joint; section

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heat haze; shimmer of hot air

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insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness

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life span

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a few hours

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few days

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regency government

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permanent; standing

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Anna era (968.8.13-970.3.25); Anwa era

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cloistered rule; government by cloistered emperors

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about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite

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