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training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices

3

the end; the extremity; the limit; the limits; the result

1

magic; sorcery; incantation

1

wizardry; secret of immortality

1

mastery; learning through experience; realization; realisation; comprehension

1

fierce god

2

being able to do as one pleases; doing at will; pothook

1

to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet

1

literary and military arts; the pen and the sword

1

world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign

3

to govern; to manage; to subdue

1

powerful person; influential person

1

to fear; to be afraid of

3

society; public; community; social studies

4

to bewilder; to perplex; to puzzle; to tempt; to seduce

1

criminal; lawbreaker; wrongdoer; offender

1

edge; brink; verge; time; moment of

1

cavern; cave; cave system; grotto

1

islanders

2

agriculture

1

fishing industry; fishery

1

natural virtue; personal virtue

1

to show respect for; to revere; to honour; to honor; to worship; to hold in esteem

1

Shugendō; Japanese mountain asceticism incorporating Shinto and Buddhist concepts

1

period; term; interval

4

geta; Japanese wooden clogs; turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character

1

Mount Fuji; Mt. Fuji; Fujiyama; Fuji-san

2

tradition; legend; folklore

1

to yearn for; to long for; to follow (someone); to idolize (for virtue, learning, status, etc.)

1

on an island; on-island

1

sacred ground

1

festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy

2

every year; yearly; annually

3

June; sixth month of the lunar calendar

1

Pacific War (1941-1945)

1

early post war period; immediately after the war

1

gods and Buddha; Shinto and Buddhism

1

political measures; policy

1

link (e.g. in a chain of events); part (of a plan, campaign, activities, etc.); monocyclic

1

to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship

1

in the sea

1

abandonment; giving up; throwing away; disposal; dumping

1

(religious) faith; belief; creed

2

shade of a rock

1

to hide; to be hidden; to conceal oneself; to disappear

3

US Navy

1

patrol boat

1

to throw into

2

to drive into (e.g. a nail into a board); to hit into (e.g. a home run into the stands); to throw into (e.g. jail); to drum into (someone) (an idea, skill, etc.); to hammer into

1

to pull in (fish); to land

5