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civil society

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spread (e.g. of a disease); rampancy; infestation; proliferation; being widespread

1

astringency; constriction; collecting (e.g. opinions); putting together; extraction (of taxes); convergence (of light); convergence

1

flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event

1

chief; main; principal; major

1

works cited; references

1

Mikiko

1

The Asahai Shimbun Company

1

successive generations; successive emperors

1

magazine

1

wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect

2

company; association; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.

15

empress; queen

1

Elisabeth

1

dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia

1

Chuukoubunko (publisher)

2

truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; (arch.) that's right

1

party; banquet; feast

1

library; book collection; paperback book

3

Calmette

1

diplomatic message sent by a head of state; sovereign letter; book written in Japanese (as opposed to Chinese, etc.); Japanese book; national literature (of Japan)

1

publication society

1

frunk; front trunk (e.g. of a car)

1

Gibney

1

compilation (of a text); editing; volume (of a text); completed literary work

1

international; diplomatic intercourse

1

large encyclopedia

1

encyclopedia; cyclopedia

1

Gooch

1

15; fifteen

1

decline and fall; ruin; downfall; collapse

1

Chūōkōron (monthly literary magazine)

2

marguerite (Chrysanthemum frutescens); Japanese women's hairstyle comprised of a long braid tied up in a loop with a ribbon (ca. 1885)

1

Crosland

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uncrowned; without rank; having no championship wins; receiving no (major) awards

1

original; primitive; primary; fundamental; raw

3

study; library; bookstore; bookshop; publishing company

3

village along a (large) river

3

Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western

3

storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story

3

a series of paperbacks published since 1964 by Kodansha

3

legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way

1

battle; fight; war; struggle; conflict

1

morning sun

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Shiono Nanami (1937.7-)

2

collection (e.g. literary works); collected edition

1

tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance; thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

1

Takahashi Yuuko

1

rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor

2

new book; 17x11 cm paperback book

2