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Jiyuu Gakuen (Christian school with a building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright); Jiyu Gakuen

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Empire Day (February 11th; national holiday held from 1872 to 1948)

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lecture; discourse

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salt pan (used for boiling seawater to make salt); cooking a fish inside a salt crust; candy made with a wrapping of sweetened rice flour (looking like a salt crust)

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Japan Art Academy

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prize; award

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winning (a prize)

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returning home

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epitaph; inscription on a tombstone

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to choose; to select

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pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)

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army

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first lieutenant; lieutenant junior grade

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Science Council of Japan

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Hawaii; Hawai'i

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group (usu. of people)

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continuation; sequel

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new edition; new compilation; new formation (of a force, unit, etc.); new organization

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included (in a publication); carried; printed

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laboratory; seminar room; professor's office

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portrait

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Suiko

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drawing room; study; publishing house; writing alcove

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ethnology

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presentation of poem (to court)

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to order; to command; to appoint

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the whole country

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widow

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The Asahai Shimbun Company

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poetic diction

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Japanese (language)

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history of; experience of

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one copy (of a document); one letter; one-way traffic; pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9)

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wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect

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modern poetry

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language family; family of languages

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winter solstice

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blockage; blockade; blocking up; stoppage; obstruction; occlusion

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kabuki play

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Tokyo University

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to go to bed; to be sick in bed; to be laid up

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to take measures; to work out a plan; to lecture; to read aloud; to confer

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Yasukuni Shrine

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request; appeal; claim; purchase

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(arch.) not; is; are

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(vengeful) ghost; specter; spectre

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lingering odor; lingering odour

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vengeance; revenge; retaliation

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NHK; Japan Broadcasting Corporation

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(audio) recording

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