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The Woman-Killer (bunraku play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon); The Woman-Killer and the Hell of Oil

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reason; cause; circumstances

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Chikamatsu

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to sharpen; to hone; to wash (rice); to scour; to polish

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I can tell you; heh

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Dengyoudaishi

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Shoukuu

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holy priest; saint

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divine; imperial

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Buddhist priest

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younger brother (of an older brother); younger sister (of an older sister); youngest child; young; younger; young and beautiful

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defence of Buddhist doctrines; god who defends Buddhist doctrines; defence of the constitution; religious power to dispel demons and diseases

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separate; respective

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practitioner (of medicine, sorcery, fortune telling, etc.)

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moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly; rolling about

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war; campaign; battle; (arch.) unpaid work (ritsuryo system); (arch.) forced labor

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long life

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tingling; stinging; pungently

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number of times

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funny; comical; humorous; ridiculous; silly; absurd

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demon; devil; evil spirit; -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend

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second (party to an agreement); the B party (e.g. in a contract); stylish; chic; strange; quaint

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abbreviation

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presence (of a nobleman, the emperor, etc.); outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade); My Lord; My Lady

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restoration; return; reduction; resolution; deoxidization

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ghost; apparition; phantom; spectre; specter; demon

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hair style; coiffure; hairdo

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classification

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(a) row; line

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dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

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to sell

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children's hairstyle of short untied hair; child with short untied hair; young girl working as a servant for a high-class prostitute (Edo period); (arch.) baldness; (arch.) bald head

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to pick up; to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take away; to confiscate; to deliver (a baby)

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to be disordered; to be disarranged; to be discomposed; to be upset; to lapse into chaos (due to war, etc.)

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mule

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phonetic value; note value; time value

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shaking; trembling; pitching; disturbance; unrest; agitation

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obvious; undeniable

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to come apart; to unravel; to come loose; to become disarrayed (e.g. hair)

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working feverishly; strenuous efforts; furious dedication (to a task); (arch.) having dishevelled hair; (arch.) fighting with dishevelled hair

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kappa; mythical water-dwelling creature; excellent swimmer; cucumber; cucumber sushi wrapped in nori (seaweed)

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kappa (mythical water-dwelling creature)

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river; stream; River; the ... river

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child

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picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage

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to become settled; to be fixed

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quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion

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that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so

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(arch.) boy (sometimes derog.); you

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grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)

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