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grain (of wood)

1

cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat

13

Shiva (Hindu god); Siva

55

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

67

earthquake disaster; Great Kanto Earthquake (1923)

2

tenement house; row house

3

Christian

1

cross (for crucifixion); the Cross (of Christ)

2

Christianity

1

Heart Sutra

1

henchman; follower; (arch.) adopted child

1

scoundrel; rascal; villain

1

to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe and humor (humour)

2

the front; honesty; uprightness; decency; normality

1

gambling den; gambling house

1

debt; loan; liabilities; borrowing money

1

debt collector; bill collector; repo man

1

yakuza

1

gofer; dogsbody; person who is made to do things or get things for someone else

1

proper; respectable; decent; (arch.) entirely; (arch.) completely; (arch.) wholly

1

to behave violently; to commit violence; to use force

1

generous; unstinting

1

to distribute; to hand out

1

to tell; to (try to) persuade; to advise; to warn; to admonish; to reason

1

to be kind to; to treat kindly

1

feelings of guilt

3

balance

2

drunken frenzy; drunken violence; person who is prone to violence when drunk

1

early; soon; quickly; swiftly; rapidly

1

to lose (through death) (e.g. wife, child)

1

age 10

1

Sannō Festival (Hie Shrine in Tokyo; June 15); Sannō Festival (Hie Shrine in Shiga; April 14)

1

stall-keeper (esp. at a festival); street vendor; huckster; faker; hawker; seller of unreliable merchandise

1

about; concerning; related to; -ish

1

article for sale; goods for sale; offering; specialty; selling point

1

drink; beverage

1

since then; from that time; ever since

1

ancestor

2

China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)

1

to cross over; to go across; to extend; to cover; to range

4

feudal domain (Edo and early Meiji periods, precursor to current prefectures); fiefdom; province

1

dirty work; unpleasant task

1

to take on; to undertake; to take over; to inherit; to guarantee; to vouch for

1

ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very

1

Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times

1

Takeda Shingen (1521.12.1-1573.5.13)

2

dense; thick; close (relationship); intimate; minute; fine

1

suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy

1

tall story; tall tale; cock-and-bull story

2

one part; one portion; one section

1