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important; having a high status; having standing; exalted; of high station

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wearing (e.g. uniform, seat belt); having on

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Sei Shonagon (Poet of the Heian period, included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)

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The Pillow Book (by Sei Shonagon)

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purple; violet; Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell); type of soy sauce

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happy; auspicious; propitious; naive

4

although

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anything and everything; all sorts of things; by all means

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splendid; fine; praiseworthy; creditable; legal; legitimate

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kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes

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clothes

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politics; government

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history

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liked; well-liked; in love (with); loved; faddism; eccentricity

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purple vestment (traditionally awarded by the imperial household); high-ranking priest's purple robe

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incident; affair; happening; event

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Kan'ei era (1624.2.30-1644.12.16)

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Emperor Go-Mizu-no-O; Go-Mizu-no-O Tenno (1596-1680 CE, reigning: 1611-1629 CE)

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great virtue; virtuous priest; priest; rich person

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counter for temples

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strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness

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heart; mind; bottom of one's heart; core (of one's character); centre; center; heart (organ)

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to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause

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imperial sanction; royal charter; chartered (e.g. chartered accountant)

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Tokugawa shogunate (i.e. the Edo shogunate, 1603-1867)

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invalid; void; ineffective; unavailable

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bakufu; shogunate

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Imperial Court

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superiority; predominance

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vestment; priest's robe

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kasaya; monk's stole; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder)

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eminent virtue

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monks and nuns

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

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protest; objection

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pickled daikon radish

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preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism); preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism); preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism); second highest priestly rank in Buddhism; monk (esp. the head monk of a temple); master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

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punishment; penalty

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to feel ashamed

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to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch

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desire; wish; request; entreaty; prayer; (written) application

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to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud

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sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt

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early (days); initial stage; initial

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Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism

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real name (of a deceased person or a noble); posthumous name

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Souhou

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Tajima (former province located in the north of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture)

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Hyogo prefecture (Kinki area) (Hyougo)

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spring; the springtime

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