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fragment; scrap; cut end; cut-off piece; chip; odds and ends

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to strain (oneself); to bear down; to exert oneself; to put on a bold front; to make a show of strength; to swagger

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in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely

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semicircle

1

agreement; stipulation; contract

2

Mimasaka (former province located in the northeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)

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origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material

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mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy

2

to give off (a smell, scent, aroma); to smell of; to perfume (a room, etc.); to hint at; to suggest; to insinuate

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I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said

3

(not) even; (not) any

1

extraordinary; special; exceptional; non-standard grammatical construction; ungrammatical usage; solecism

1

only; sole; unique

2

each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn

3

to appear ...; to look like ...; to seem ...; to have a trace of; to be tinged with

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flesh and bones

1

experienced; seasoned; veteran

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after all

2

suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows

1

sound of vibrating bowstring

1

to stand on end (hair, fur); to bristle; to ruffle (up)

1

lion; left-hand guardian dog at a Shinto shrine

1

to jump up; to spring up; to move around; to bounce up and down; to pound (of one's heart, e.g. with excitement); to throb

4

to spring; to jump up; to fly up; to skip

4

laminate; veneer

1

windless; calm; quiet (state of affairs); peaceful; stable

1

yaksha (Buddhist guardian deities sometimes depicted as demonic warriors)

2

taking (something) seriously

1

object; objective; aim

1

appalling; awful; extreme pain; deep sorrow

2

indescribable; having no way to express

1

nothing special; nothing significant; not a problem

1

lessening; diminishing; reducing

2

raging waves

3

old age; old person; the old; the aged

3

to strike against; to collide with; to encounter; to meet; to clash

1

right foot; right leg

1

very

1

whiz (e.g. projectile through air); swoosh; whoosh; whistling sound

1

on the way back; returning

1

to lie on top of one another; to be in a heap

1

dawn; daybreak; end; soon after something has ended; beginning (of a new year, month, etc.)

2

to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)

2

languidly; loosely

1

how; in what way; how about

2

concealment; hiding; ambush; incubation; latency; dormancy

2

unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident

1

to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)

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Hōgen era (1156.4.27-1159.4.20)

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Heiji era (1159.4.20-1160.1.10)

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