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temple solicitation

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influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne

1

Yoritomo

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Kamakura (city)

2

archery and horsemanship

1

to discuss; to talk together

1

to do one's best; to put forth every effort

1

request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance

6

to tie; to fasten; to hitch; to secure (trust, patronage of customers, etc.); to keep (an employee, someone's interest, etc.); to save (someone's life)

1

discovery; detection; finding

25

to approach (one's) death; to face (one's) death

1

to lose one's way; to get lost; to waver; to hesitate; to give into temptation; to lose control of oneself

3

nirvana; supreme enlightenment; death; death of Buddha

1

assistant ...; probationary ...

4

purity; spotlessness

1

pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha); (Buddhist) paradise; Pure Land Buddhism

1

waterfall; (arch.) rapids

3

clear; pure; noble

1

this and that; this person and that person; anybody

1

to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)

3

grudge; ill will; enmity

1

period; Nihon-shoki

1

state (US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. Canada); continent; (arch.) dear

1

Nachidaki

1

Tokugawa shogunate (i.e. the Edo shogunate, 1603-1867)

1

sacred place; holy ground; the Holy Land; real-life location used as a setting in a novel, film, anime, etc.

2

sunlight; sunshine; sunbeams

1

avatamsa (flower adornment, as a metaphor for becoming a buddha); Avatamska sutra; Kegon (sect of Buddhism)

1

remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude

2

Mt.; Mount; (fig.) Mt.; (fig.) Mount

3

fairyland; enchanted land

1

to acquire knowledge

1

corpse; kanji "corpse" radical

5

in heaps

1

famous mountain

1

to suck; to lick

2

to slurp; to sip (loudly); to sniffle; to sniff

6

growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)

1

crime; sin; penalty; sentence; fault; responsibility

2

to consume

3

liberation from earthly desires and the woes of man; deliverance of one's soul; moksha; mukti; vimukti

1

primness; prim person; clear soup; water for rinsing sake cups (at a banquet, etc.)

1

with the exception of; excepting; excluding

4

fusuma; Japanese sliding screen

1

to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)

1

to be charmed by; to be attracted to; to be taken with; to be drawn to

2

overturning; capsizing; overthrow (e.g. of a government)

2

counterattack

3

Great Kanto earthquake of 1923

5

Great Tokyo Air Raid (March 10, 1945)

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