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background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)

2

clotted blood; gore; sticky clots of blood

1

scene; view; prospect; outlook

3

to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle

1

foreground

1

to swing; to sway; to shake; to waver; to feel shaken; to become unstable

4

innumerable; countless; numberless

4

to gaze (at); to stare intently (at); to look fixedly (at); to fascinate; to enchant; to possess

1

corpse; kanji "corpse" radical

5

sound; noise; audio; acoustics; reverberation

1

townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street

2

relative

1

to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote

1

to enter; to come in; to join (a club, company, etc.); to enter (a university, the army, etc.); to be contained (in); to be included (in); to (be able to) fit (in a container, building, etc.)

1

deep blue; bright blue; ghastly pale; pallid; white as a sheet

3

bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh

1

to press; to oppress; to dominate; to overwhelm

1

in heaps

1

to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

2

Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)

1

stretching a rope around; roping off; one's turf; domain; territory (of an animal)

1

Ogyū Sorai (1666-1728; Confucian scholar)

1

to dance

1

revelatory dream; revelation; a vision

1

castle

7

persuasion

1

Sweden; Switzerland

1

degenerate age; corrupt world; age of the decline of Buddhism; latter days of the law

2

doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion

1

attendant; valet; servant; follower

2

Takarada

1

festivities; celebration; wedding; marriage ceremony

2

and also; and on top of that; so (I take it that ...); then ...; (arch.) in that case; (arch.) if so

1

in name only; titular; nominal

1

Enoshima

1

Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)

1

pilgrimage; visit

1

return journey; one's way home; one's way back

2

to come near (to); to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to reach (a stage, period, etc.); to overhang; to hang over

5

konoshiro gizzard shad (Konosirus punctatus)

1

fish

1

such; like that; in that way

1

the last stage

1

dictation; verbal statement

1

to do; to perform; to carry out; (arch.) to serve; (arch.) to wait upon; (arch.) to attend

3

to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval)

1

26th day of the month; 26 days

1

to set out (on a journey); to start (a task)

1

Harbin (China)

2

station area; in front of a station; (at a) station

1