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European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

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influence of Buddhism; power of Buddhism

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single story house

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plectrum; pick; drumstick for Japanese drums (e.g. taiko)

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esoteric Buddhism of the Japanese Shingon sect

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consecration ritual for the conferral of the status of Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism)

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keeping silent; silence; restraining (speech); gagging; muzzling

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gabled roof; building with a gabled roof; gabled roof construction

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Suda

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building with a gabled, hipped roof

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absurd; unreasonable; out of the question; preposterous

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Matsukou

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hair pulled tightly back in a bun

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cannot be treated lightly; requiring careful attention; cannot be ignored

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form of astrology based on the Xiuyaojing (brought to Japan in the Heian period)

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principle of duality

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woven pattern or design

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to beg; to request; to demand; to entreat

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candle holder

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true or false

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passage of the seasons; change of the four seasons

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practice-swinging (sword, bat, tennis racket, etc.)

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spring of sweet water

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work in a Zen temple (e.g. cleaning, working in the fields)

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sacred ground

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honorific mountain name prefixed to a temple's name

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silver coin

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dilapidated house; tumbledown house; my house; my home; small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls)

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cephalothorax

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leaving a cram school; dropping out of a cram school

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to cause to embrace; to combine; to conjoin; to sell strong-selling products and poorly selling products together as a package

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magnanimity; generosity; welcoming personality

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to cook (something) with rice

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to suffer a blast or indirect blow; to be subject to the surplus force of an impetus

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boar meat hot pot; boar stew

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work hakama

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Japanese beech (Fagus crenata); Siebold's beech

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a type of fox spirit

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two-storied pagoda (with a square base, pent roof and a round top)

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heavy blow; heavy hit

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flight feathers

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to torment by slow degrees; to torture slowly; to drag things out; to reproach in a roundabout way; (lit.) to strangle with floss silk

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sake; alcohol; liquor

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arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry; literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.; otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank; (people) making offerings (esp. of fish)

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brandy glass

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one-plate meal; simple meal; austerity diet

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to melt down

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fertile, productive field

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Ascot tie

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(arch.) Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan); shoots of this plant

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