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ward; borough; city (in Tokyo); district (e.g. electoral); section; zone (e.g. postal)

2

duty; sense of duty; honor; in-law; relation by marriage

3

time; season; period; phase; stage

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swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence (pretense); show; going to restaurant, hotel etc. without a reservation or introduction

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naturalized citizen; naturalised citizen

4

musician (esp. Gagaku)

1

comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery

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The Classic of Poetry; The Book of Songs; The Book of Odes; Shijing; Shih Ching

1

to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than

2

Go Nara

1

honorific affix; honorific prefix

1

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

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one roll; one book; one volume; first volume; rolling once; wrapping once around

3

Tenpyō-shōhō era (749.7.2-757.8.18)

1

(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy

1

assistant vice-minister (ritsuryo system, early Meiji period)

1

entrusting (something to a person); consignment (of goods); putting in someone's charge; trust; commission

2

soldiers garrisoned at strategic posts in Kyushu in ancient times; Chinese soldiers stationed to protect remote regions of the country during the Tang dynasty

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messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)

6

report to a superior

1

compared with

3

however; nevertheless; but; and yet; whereas; while

1

diction; grammar; syntax; usage; wording

3

frankness; impulsiveness

1

to strain; to stretch; to string up; to cover over (e.g. with tiles, ice, etc.)

1

area; region

1

boundary; border; limit; bounds; frontier

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Tōtōmi (former province located in the west of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)

2

to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend

2

north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku

1

inner part; inside; interior; depths (e.g. of a forest); back (of a house, drawer, etc.); bottom (e.g. of one's heart)

3

state (US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. Canada); continent; (arch.) dear

3

Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)

3

prosperity and decay; prosperity and decline; rise and fall; ups and downs; ebb and flow; waxing and waning

1

growth; development; stretching (one's body, e.g. when waking up); (ability to) spread (of paint, cream, etc.); elongation; extension

3

shrinkage; cotton crepe

1

residents of the capital; townsfolk

3

colonization; colonisation

1

naturalization; naturalisation

4

foreigner (esp. one of European ancestry); gaijin; (arch.) outsider

1

traveller; traveler

7

topic of conversation

1

to give rein to (imagination); to lend wings to (fancy); to rage with all one's force; to be rampant

2

registration; accession; register; entry; record

2

difference; variation; difference

1

although

1

each and all; every single one; everybody

1

to mix; to combine; to exchange (words, fire, etc.); to cross (e.g. swords); to join together

1

to prove; to substantiate

1

root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature

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