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politics; government

6

ritual; religious service; festival

2

Shinto ritual

1

national polity; National Athletic Meet

1

defend and maintain; support; protection

1

(one's) exclusive use; private use; dedicated use; use for a particular purpose; exclusive use (of particular products); using only (e.g. a certain brand)

1

engine; agency; organisation; system; facility

5

thus

2

Department of Divinities (1868-1871); (arch.) Department of Worship (under the ritsuryo system)

2

flying bird

2

(social) position; status

2

to pull up by the roots

1

Bureau of Onmyō; government office in charge of astronomical observations, divination and calendar making (under the ritsuryo system)

1

starting; inauguration; launch; founding; establishment; start-up

1

rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power

5

hectic; bewildering; bustling; dizzy

2

to change

3

ornament; decoration; figurehead; leader without real power

1

to degenerate; to lapse into

2

gods of heaven and earth

15

decline; fall; decay; withering

1

duration; continuance; survival; persistence; retention

3

cultural assets; cultural property

1

to extol; to laud; to sing the praises of

1

misfortune; ill fate; bad luck; obscurity

1

gloomy

4

comeback (e.g. in business); reinstatement; second blooming (in a season); reflowering; reflorescence

2

longing for; burning desire

2

to mark the end; to spell the end

3

revival; reconstruction; restoration; rebuilding; recovery; renaissance

3

system

4

official duties; office; function

1

religious mission; religious proclamation

2

people (of a country); nation; citizen; national

3

new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)

3

widely; extensively; far and wide; everywhere; all around; generally

1

to make known

5

State Shintō; nationalistic form of Shinto, formerly the official religion of Japan

1

baby

11

enlightenment; development; edification; public awareness; illumination; education

1

project; enterprise; business; (arch.) act; (arch.) deed; (arch.) conduct

4

distinguished or meritorious service

1

to succeed in doing; to manage to do; to finish doing

1

in the ministry; in the department

1

bad reputation; ill repute; bad name; (arch.) evil deed; (arch.) wrongdoing; (arch.) wrongdoer

1

scrap; junk; waste material

1

short-lived rule; being in power only for a brief period; brief championship

1

short term; short time

1

abolition; repeal

1

new era; new period; new age; new epoch

2