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settlement; payment of account

1

document; writing; letter; document addressed to someone

3

temporary; provisional; interim; special; extraordinary; extra

1

bill; job invoice

2

Ministry of Revenue (Tang-dynasty China)

46

frequent reflection (meditation)

1

six copies; Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

2

to rule; to govern; to administer

1

engine; agency; organisation; system; facility

2

natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly

1

from now on; hereafter

2

end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)

1

new; fresh; novel

3

construction; establishment

2

demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire

3

summer

3

tea party; get-together; tea ceremony

2

recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement

1

to reject; to spurn; to turn down; to refuse

2

nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband

23

economising; saving

1

ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very

2

to rank next to; to come after

1

second (in a series)

2

great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough

1

gray or silver haired (grey)

1

unaffected and sincere, with fortitude and vigor (vigour)

1

man; male; masculine gender

5

to be reminded of; to call to mind

1

made from paper

1

smooth (of a surface); glassy; smooth (of an action, proceedings, etc.); fluent (speech); continuously differentiable

1

feel; touch

1

admiration; being impressed; admirable; praiseworthy; astonishment; being appalled

2

to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation

5

paper

4

like water; like it grows on trees

1

consumption; expenditure

1

that's so, isn't it

3

silk goods

2

bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)

3

bamboo writing strip

15

highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly

1

(not) ever; (not) by any means; (not) in the least; (not) in any way; (not) at all

2

low-priced; cheap; inexpensive; shallow (e.g. sympathy); superficial; cheap (e.g. government)

1

practical; useful; utilitarian; pragmatic

1

to be bulky; to be unwieldy; to grow voluminous

1

hard to handle

1

such

1

national power

1

to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt

1