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creating a garden; landscape gardening

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construction of a house (divination term); form of a house

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more and more; increasingly; extremely; very

1

white sand

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counter for articles; counter for military units; individual

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a single tree or blade of grass; every stick and stone (of a place)

1

symbolic

4

rock garden

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

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landscape picture

2

traditional (Chinese or Japanese) dry landscape garden

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door

2

beam; joist

1

one's own handwriting; autograph

1

strong wind; high wind; moderate gale

1

book; volume

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Meiwa era (1764.6.2-1772.11.16)

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school (e.g. of ikebana)

3

the big two...; two major...; two main...

2

Southern Song dynasty (China, 1127-1279)

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to harvest; to reap; to take in; to gather in; to adopt (e.g. idea); to accept (e.g. advice)

1

creation; founding; initiating

1

Buddhist temple

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architectural style

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large statue of Buddha (trad. at least 4.8m high)

1

main southern gate (of a temple, castle town, etc.)

1

representative; exemplary; model

1

to insert; to put in; to thrust in; to plug in

1

short love song (popular in late Edo period)

1

slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period)

1

musical composition title; song title

1

upper part; upper region; region above

1

natural features; scenery; things particular to a certain region or season; characteristic scenery and customs; scenes and manners

1

to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)

1

unbroken; endless; continuous

1

love; attachment; lovesickness

1

to sing at the top of one's voice; to belt out a song; to express one's feelings fully in a poem; to praise in poetry

1

indolence; listlessness

1

sleepiness; drowsiness

2

to awaken; to arouse from sleep; to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of); to sober up

1

six main gagaku modes (equivalent to A Dorian, B Dorian, E Dorian, D Mixolydian, E Mixolydian and G Mixolydian)

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Western music; European music

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(in Japan) 8th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A)

1

tonic; keynote

1

to ring; to clang

2

Gigen

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Enen

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analects; sayings

3

pardon; forgiveness; forbearance

1

three parts; three copies

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