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love song; love poem

1

to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience

1

Tenmu

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Jitou

1

rendezvous; tryst; (lover's) meeting; (secret) date

1

romantic

1

capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light); location of the Imperial Palace

2

to take root; to strike

6

weaving; weaver

3

seventh of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Venus and west)

1

appearance; look; a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune; aspect; phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous)

3

technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft

2

subject; theme

1

to like; to prefer

1

skilfulness; skillfulness; cleverness

6

region; limits; stage; level

1

desk

2

food and (alcoholic) drink

1

hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit

2

improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress; communication of opinions of the general populace to those of high rank

4

to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass

3

1st quarter of moon; crescent moon

2

moonlight

2

to thread (e.g. a needle, beads, etc.)

1

Emperor Shoumu; Shoumu Tenno (701-756 CE, reigning: 724-749 CE)

3

person of letters; literary person

1

to compose a poem

1

result; effect; performance; workmanship; execution; shape and quality (of an article)

2

stipend; reward

1

to be given; to be granted; to be honored with; to give; to bestow; to confer

1

treasure; treasured item; prized possession

1

public storehouse used to store grain or valuables collected for taxation (ritsuryo system)

1

silver (Ag); silver coin; money; silver medal; silver colour; silver color; bank

1

steel

1

made of iron

1

seven (long cylindrical things)

1

three colours; three colors; triple run; winning hand containing the same chow in each of the three suits; triple pung; winning hand containing the same pung in each of the three suits

1

silk thread

1

bundle; bunch; sheaf

2

iron (Fe); strong and hard (as iron); railway; railway enthusiast

1

thorny shrub; wild rose; briar; thorn; cusp

2

(arch.) switch (long, tender shoot of a plant); switch (cane used for flogging)

2

Festival to Plead for Skills (progenitor festival of Tanabata)

5

arts; crafts; handicrafts

1

ceremony; matter; affair; with regard to; as for

1

double feature (movie)

1

to become a yokozuna; to be a yokozuna

1

paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)

7

clothes rack

1

fruit

2