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preparation; arrangements

1

five o'clock

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drawing room; parlour; parlor; reception office

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to keep (a person) waiting

1

ought to have been; was ... right?; to do for (inferiors)

1

slowly (but steadily); gradually; irritatedly; impatiently; scorchingly (of the sun); sizzling (i.e. sound of frying in oil); sound of a warning bell, alarm clock, etc.

1

by and by; before long

1

escape; flight; running away; elopement; fleeing

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military police

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irrefutable evidence; smoking gun; solid evidence; incontestable proof; dead giveaway

1

to make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid; to make ambiguous; to evade (e.g. the point); to be noncommittal about

2

sensitive; alert; aware; susceptible

1

to smell; to sense

1

rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance; one who arrests; force attacking the rear of a castle; (opponent's) weak point

1

to herd; to drive; to corner; to force someone into doing; to go hard; to push yourself

1

to understand; to make out

1

to have rumors going around (rumours); to have rumors spread

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furthermore; adding to the above-mentioned; not quite; not very good; lacking

1

many; much; plenty; hardly

1

to have a meal; to take a meal

1

without eating or drinking

1

meal; dinner; diet

1

battlefield; battleground

1

to hit (a person); to strike; to beat; to deliver (a speech); to give (an address)

1

to distribute; to hand out

1

endurance; patience; perseverance; self-control; self-restraint

1

intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy

1

madness; insanity; irregularity; deviation; fanaticism; fanatic

1

elixir of life (prepared from cinnabar in ancient China)

2

everyday life; daily life

1

ordinary person; average person; mediocre person

1

to slip out; to steal out; to excel; to stand out

1

to obey; to submit to; to serve (in the army, a prison sentence, etc.); to go into (mourning); to observe; to take (medicine, poison, etc.)

1

sleep-talking; nonsense; gibberish

4

one's native language; one's mother tongue

1

dialect; provincialism

1

to be born

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to take lessons in; to be taught; to learn (from a teacher); to study (under a teacher); to get training in

1

normal state (condition)

1

to chip; to nick; to break; to lack

1

extraordinary; uncommon

1

origin; birthplace; descent; lineage; ancestry

4

to weigh on one's mind; to be worried about (something)

1

place where there are hot springs; hot springs spa

1

reasonably; fairly; hurriedly; in a rush; approximately; about

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En no Ozunu (634-c.700) (founder of Shugendō)

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Ennogyouja

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Shugendō; Japanese mountain asceticism incorporating Shinto and Buddhist concepts

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magician; conjurer

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Dragon King; promoted rook

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