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four-eyed; pattern of four squares

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to wear a mask; to hide one's true intentions

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clothing; garment; dress

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ancient skirt

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to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around

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shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext

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stick-to-itiveness; perseverance; radical (esp. one that tends to ionize easily); root; indriya (faculty of the body having a specific function, i.e. the sensory organs)

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counter for large animals (e.g. head of cattle); counter for insects in a collection; counter for helmets, masks, etc.

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wild beast; wild animal; brute

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to dress up as; to disguise oneself as; to play the role of

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imperial court

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ghost; apparition

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nth year in the Taishō era (1912.7.30-1926.12.25)

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(ceremony of) driving out evil spirits

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Song dynasty (China, 960-1279); Sung dynasty; Liu Song dynasty (China, 420-479); Liu Sung dynasty; Song (ancient Chinese state, 11th century-286 BCE); Sung

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New Year's Eve; December 31

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servant; valet; (arch.) someone who works in close quarters with the emperor or imperial family; (arch.) low-ranking official who works for the imperial family or nobility (under the Ritsuryo system); (arch.) ox-tender for oxcarts; (arch.) horse boy

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to chase about; to hang on; to drive hard

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imperial palace; festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress

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shrines and temples

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recent past; recent times; early modern period (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period)

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private; non-governmental; non-official; folk; popular

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circulation; dissemination

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in great numbers

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legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; female genitalia (esp. the clitoris); kidney; small

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Emperor Uda; Uda Tenno (867-931 CE, reigning: 887-897 CE)

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Onmyōdō; way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements

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first day of spring (according to the traditional lunisolar calendar, approx. February 4)

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first day of summer (approx. May 6)

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first day of autumn (approx. August 8); first day of fall

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first day of winter (approx. November 8)

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last night; the previous night; night before (Christmas, etc.); eve (of festival, major event, etc.)

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the positive and the negative

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maliciousness; ill will; noxious gas; (arch.) (vengeful) ghost; (arch.) specter

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disaster; accident; calamity; catastrophe

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old-fashioned; behind the times; out-of-date; antiquated

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ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities; ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami

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visit (from abroad); introduction (from abroad); importation

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Imperial Court

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to obey (an order, law, etc.); to abide by (a rule, custom, etc.); to follow (a person); to accompany; to go alongside (e.g. a river); to follow (e.g. a sign)

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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)

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solemn; respectful; reverent; silent; quiet

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Shinjin

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Miki

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all kinds of things; various things; large number of people

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Nihon Shoki; Nihongi; Chronicles of Japan

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to carry on one's shoulder; to shoulder; to bear; to bear (burden, responsibility, etc.); to take upon oneself

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abstract

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ancestral; hereditary; imported; transmitted; handed down

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genuine; real; full-scale; full-blown; full-fledged; professional

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