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as far as the eye can see

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Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny

4

claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention

3

geometrical

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clear weather; fine weather; formal; ceremonial; cleared of suspicion

2

to hang; to hang up

1

custom

1

pursuit (of a goal, ideal, etc.); search; chase; seeking after

1

way; method; means; resource; course

1

tool; means; ingredients (added to soup, rice, etc.); counter for sets of armor, utensils, furniture, etc.

1

to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to

1

to deliver; to hand over; to transfer

1

this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)

1

to give birth to; to drop (a calf, foal, etc.); to lay (an egg)

1

general; conceptual

1

meeting up; gathering; assembly; set

1

geometric pattern

1

to mince; to cut fine; to carve; to engrave; to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to etch (into one's mind)

1

killing time; staving off boredom

1

to call in; to invite; to bring in

2

story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend

1

to be bony; to be angular

1

home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains

1

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

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to introduce; to compare; to check; to adjust; to pull into place

1

extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings; curing illness

1

neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity

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Tokyo

2

social conditions; phase of life; (sign of) the times; state of society

1

proximity; nearness; soon; nearby

1

call; summons; convening; convocation

1

university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

1

study; research; investigation

1

at first; in the beginning; originally

1

village

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to hold a ceremony

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respect; honour; honor

1

privilege; special right

1

villager

3

rank; ranking order; hierarchy

1

friction; discord; trouble; dissension; disagreement

1

quarrel; fight; trouble; dispute; friction; discord

2

most part; greater part; majority

1

many; numerous

1

to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through

1

specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying

1

last resort; desperate measure taken under pressure of necessity

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refusal; rejection; denial; veto

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may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

1

bombing (raid)

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