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(family) crest; coat of arms; pattern; figure; playing card suit (in karuta)

2

to deem acceptable; to approve of; to value; to consider a good thing

2

outrageous; wild (ambition, idea, etc.); crazy; inordinate; extravagant (e.g. claims); audacious

1

implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation

1

difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy

5

Japanese word of Chinese origin; Sino-Japanese word; language of the Han people; Chinese

1

people; men and women; each person; everybody

9

to draw (water); to scoop up; to dip up; to understand (someone's feelings, etc.); to grasp; to surmise

1

for generations; from generation to generation; generation after generation; through the ages

3

Mt.; Mount; temple

9

to live in hiding; to live as a recluse

1

remainder; the rest; what is left

5

fireside

1

summer

4

outdoor fire with dense smoke to repel mosquitoes; mosquito-fumigation

1

infancy; childhood; tender age

1

ancestors

1

old person (knowledgeable about events of the distant past); elderly person; elder

1

to drive in (a nail, stake, etc.); to hammer in; to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to fire into; to shoot into; to input (data)

14

anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone

1

thought

1

to sink deeply into one's mind; to come home to; to go to one's heart; to pierce one's body (e.g. of wind, cold, etc.)

1

learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics

1

Japanese-Chinese; Japan and China

1

Chinese martial arts; kung fu; wushu; kenpō (martial arts); kempo

1

especially; particularly; above all; most of all; more than anything else

2

(the) positive; yang (in Chinese divination); the open; visible place

1

military science; strategy; tactics

1

secret method; secret process; secret formula; esoteric rituals (in Shingon Buddhism)

2

to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to reach the peak of something (e.g. luxury, hardships, etc); to be extremely (e.g. busy); to exhaust completely; to have nothing left (e.g. to say)

4

ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml

5

to hear (secondhand)

1

high salary

1

decorum; propriety; politeness

1

to hold in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to have (problems, debts, etc.); to take on (a responsibility); to employ; to have (on one's staff)

7

feudal lords; barons; princes

1

vehicle; horse-drawn carriage

2

flatly rejecting; curtly refusing; beating easily; defeating handily; one kick

1

whistling (wind); blowing; fluttering (in the wind); waving; staggering; tottering

2

capital; metropolis; old Kyoto

1

miscellany (classification of Japanese poetry unrelated to the seasons or to love)

1

office (government department beneath a bureau under the ritsuryō system)

1

open-hearted; free and easy; frank; not being bothered by unimportant things

2

lawlessness; violation of customs

1

nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty

2

long sleeves

1

shrine; palace; imperial residence; Imperial prince; Imperial princess; headboard with built-in shelves, drawers, etc.

2

mountains and rivers; natural surroundings

2

to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to

10

land of the gods; Japan; China

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