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Bunten exhibition; art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition)

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Bunten exhibition; annual art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition)

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to take over; to hand over

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exhibition sponsored by the government

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renewal; replacement; regeneration; metabolism

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postwar period; period after Second World War

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Japan Fine Arts Exhibition; JFAE; Nitten Exhibition

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revival; restoration; resuscitation

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evil; wickedness; (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.); the bad guy

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Tolstoy; Tolstoi

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Christianity

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prohibition; inhibition; ban

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after

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religious conversion

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layman; believer; adherent; follower; laity

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to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give

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Tokyo Metropolis (prefecture); Tokyo metropolitan area

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letter; writings

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imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000

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ward; borough; city (in Tokyo); district (e.g. electoral); section; zone (e.g. postal)

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Japanese ginger (Zingiber mioga)

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valley

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slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark

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bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)

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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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Philippines

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island group; archipelago

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northernmost

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Luzon (island)

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interpreter (esp. of Dutch and Chinese during the Edo period); interpretation; court interpreter

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official interpreter

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Meireki era (1655.4.13-1658.7.23)

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iota

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Kyōhō era (1716.6.22-1736.4.28)

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Kazusa (former province located in the central part of present-day Chiba Prefecture)

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Kururi

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

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ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer

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Jun'an

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neo-Confucianism (based on the teachings of Zhu Xi and his followers)

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to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in

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Kōfu (city in Yamanashi)

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Ienobu

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tutor to a daimyo, etc.; tutor to the emperor or crown prince (Meiji period)

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Shōtoku era (1711.4.25-1716.6.22)

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accomplishment; execution

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history

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ober dictum; passing remark in a judgement

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Seiyoukibun

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Western learning (introduced to Japan in the late-Edo and early-Meiji eras)

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