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the coming of Amida Buddha to welcome the spirits of the dead

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drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene

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deathbed; dying hour; one's death

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bedside; near one's pillow

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one mind; wholeheartedness; one's whole heart

3

biographical sketch

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model case

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compiling; editing; writing

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The Tale of Genji (Heian period classic)

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marked; pronounced; showing a strong tendency (towards)

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endgame; final stage

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folding book; counter for units of paper and nori (48 pages of Mino paper; 20 pages of hanshi; 10 sheets of nori); counter for folding books, folding screens, shields, etc.; counter for pairs (of curtains); counter for tatami mats

6

keyman; key person (e.g. of a company)

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vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude

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under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side

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nine; nine years of age; twelve o'clock (old time system)

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utter villain; atrocious fiend; devil

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number one; first; best; most; game; round

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emphasizes direct object of action

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adds force or indicates command

4

full moon; moon on the 15th day of the month (by the lunar calendar); full moon of the eighth lunar month

2

fragment; splinter; wane (of the Moon)

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to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)

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full moon

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to overlap

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any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever

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as everyone knows; needless to point out

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top; summit; vertex

4

Michikane

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arrangement; good offices; discretion; judgment; disposition

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to take up employment

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from the place (where); from the fact that ...; caused by the fact that ...; because

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taking great pains (to do); making every effort; having a lot of trouble (doing); racking one's brains

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Emperor Ichijou; Ichijou Tenno (980-1011 CE, reigning: 986-1011 CE)

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the Empress, the Empress Dowager and the Grand Empress Dowager; emperor's second consort; empress; palace of the empress; building of a Shinto shrine built on middle ground; demesne of the imperial palace

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eldest daughter; first-born daughter

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Shoushi

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overbearing; coercive; pushy; forcible; high-handed

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Akiko

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to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family); (arch.) to have sexual intercourse

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Emperor Sanjou; Sanjou Tenno (976-1017 CE, reigning: 1011-1016 CE)

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second daughter

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beauty

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child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)

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Atsuhira

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Emperor Go-Ichijou; Go-Ichijou Tenno (1008-1036 CE, reigning: 1016-1036 CE)

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maternal grandfather

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Grand Empress Dowager

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to stand in a line; to stand in a row; to be equal

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to bear fruit

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