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to relate; to narrate; to describe; to confer (a rank)

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far; distant; distant (past); remote (in time); distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone); far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.)

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Ishimatsu

1

life story; personal narrative; story of one's life

1

style of Japanese folk song associated with Niigata Prefecture

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Sado (former province located on Sado Island in present-day Niigata Prefecture); Sado (island, Niigata Prefecture)

1

conversing from the heart; love story

1

advantage; benefit; profit; interest

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

1

breeze off a river

1

sleeve (esp. of a kimono); pocket of sleeve; vicinity (esp. of a bridge); foot of a mountain; base of a mountain

1

moon; month

2

to pole (a boat); to punt (a boat); to swim with (the tide); to go with (the flow, the times, etc.); to go against (the tide, the flow, etc.)

1

flatboat

1

Tenpō era (1830.12.10-1844.12.2)

1

Wednesday; shaved ice (served with flavored syrup); water (fifth of the five elements)

1

legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way

3

the same kind; accomplice; partner

1

(the) whole; as a whole; in general; at large

2

throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

2

the Kojiki and Nihon-shoki

1

Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry); (arch.) thousands of leaves; (arch.) thousands of years; (arch.) all ages

1

traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven; long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century)

3

Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters; Japan's oldest historical record

2

Emperor Jimmu; Jimmu Tenno

2

poem or song written by the emperor

1

foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)

1

garlic chives (Allium tuberosum); Chinese chives; Chinese leek

1

sprout; shoot; bud; germinal disk (in an egg)

1

Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)

2

bay; gulf; inlet

1

rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor

1

to creep about; to crawl around

1

Umbonium costatum (species of sea snail)

1

opponent; rival; adversary; menace; danger; threat

3

attack; assault; raid; criticism; censure; denunciation

1

war song

1

to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace

3

Kakinomotonohitomaro

1

Iwami (former province located in the west of present-day Shimane Prefecture)

1

lagoon; inlet; creek; tidal beach; tidal flat

1

almost; nearly; close to

1

song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry

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home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains

1

to leave (behind); to leave (undone); to not finish; to save; to set aside; to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death)

3

love; affection

1

expressing one's opinion; speaking one's mind; making known; revealing

2

Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)

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

6

(ear of) Japanese pampas grass

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