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to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in

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peafowl (incl. the male peacock, female peahen, and young peachick)

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esoteric Buddhist ritual where incantations are chanted; magic

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power; might; authority; influence

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chief god

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fierce god

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dangerous person; security risk; loose cannon

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to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)

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Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)

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to drain; to pour; to wash away; to distribute (e.g. electricity over wires, music over a PA system, etc.); to circulate; to cruise (e.g. taxi); to float

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every day

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to run; to dash; to gallop (on horseback); to canter; (arch.) to advance (against one's enemy); (arch.) to charge (on horseback)

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Mount Fuji; Mt. Fuji; Fujiyama; Fuji-san

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coming and going; traffic; road; street; association; socializing

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collection of stories (esp. myths, legends, etc.)

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set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryōiki

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to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded

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to have one's name entered (in a list)

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immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit); person not bound by earthly desires

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experient; person who has experienced something

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Hokuriku region of Honshu (incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)

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Kinki (region around Osaka, Kyoto, Nara)

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landowner; landlord; landlady

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(arch.) true form of a buddha; land of origin

2

to guess right

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temporary manifestation by a buddha (in order to save people); manifested form (often a Shinto deity)

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buddhas and bodhisattvas

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mingling with the world by hiding one's true talent or knowledge; living a quiet life by effacing oneself

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high class; graceful

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to incorporate; to work into; to insert

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ghee (held to be the greatest of all flavours); (fig.) the ultimate truth of Buddhism; (fig.) nirvana

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this mountain; this temple

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effect; efficacy; omen

2

head temple; this temple

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territories in the vicinity of the capital and under direct imperial rule; (in Japanese history) the five kuni in the immediate vicinity of Kyoto

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sacred ground

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plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post

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Onmyōdō; way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements

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I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow

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each time; every time; whenever (something happens); on the occasion of

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imperial visit; imperial outing

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Southern Court (of Japan; 1336-1392); Southern Dynasty; Southern Dynasties (of China; 420-589)

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mountain ascetic; practitioner of Shugendō

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network

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practical use; application; conjugation; inflection

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pessimism due to decadent-age theory

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historical view; view of history (from a given point of view)

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just law; proper method; the true teachings of Buddha; Period of the True Law

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age of the copied law (one of the three ages of Buddhism); middle day of the law; age of semblance dharma

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latter days of the law (one of the three ages of Buddhism); age of the degeneration of the law

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