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prefix for forming ordinal numbers

1

superintendent priest; chief abbot

1

chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium)

1

knowing; (an) acquaintance

1

lady; gentleman; person

1

reversal; return; return gift; return favour (favor); barb (on a fishing hook); mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin

2

Ninna era (885.2.21-889.4.27)

3

activity (esp. energetic); great efforts; conspicuous service; to flourish; to participate actively; to play an active role

1

matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)

1

hey!; oi!; ahoy!; I; me

5

to be sullen; to be offended; to be huffy; to be stuffy; to be stifling; to be muggy

1

to begrudge doing; to find bothersome

1

absolutely; unconditionally; never (with neg. verb)

1

drawing room; parlor; parlour; guest room

1

guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation

2

to see; to look; to watch; to try to

1

to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall

2

seeing; looking at

6

to be refined (character, manners); to be classy; to be polished

1

national treasure

4

square jō (approx. 10 sq feet); abbot's chamber; chief priest

4

living room

1

karahafu; bow-shaped eaves of a gabled roof; undulating gable; cusped gable

1

imperial palace; festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress

1

pavilion used as the emperor's habitual residence (in Heian Palace)

1

dismantling a (historic) building and reconstructing it elsewhere

1

rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction

1

images drawn or painted on fusuma

2

my; our; one's own

3

proud; haughty; arrogant

2

fusuma; Japanese sliding screen

4

to take a picture

2

wrong; bad; not allowed; not possible; failing grade

1

to put one's palms together (e.g. when praying or asking for something); to place one's hands together; to compete against somebody; to play (a game, match, etc.) against somebody

11

Hanshan and Shi De (two Tang-era Chinese monks, often the subjects of works of art)

3

image; figure; figure; form; image

8

to get close; to cuddle close together; to nestle close to; to snuggle up to

3

finding (lost property); picking up

1

Tang period (China; 618-907); Tang era

1

eccentricity; eccentric behaviour

1

handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission

2

subject; theme

1

middle-aged man; Buddhist priest

3

porcelain (esp. hard-paste porcelain); china; chinaware

1

speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...

5

cloud dragon

8

private; exclusive; secret

1

main temple building; nave

11

tail (animal, kite, comet, etc.); tail end; slope at the foot of a mountain

1

vista; view; scene; counter for scenes (in a play)

1