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very; much; greatly; a lot of

4

business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...

11

should; must; -able; probably; likely

21

coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency

3

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work

69

first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole

24

superstitious person

1

theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor

4

finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)

21

man of the hour; woman of the hour

1

Shundai

1

work; book; (a book) by; obvious; striking

1

king; ruler; tycoon; magnate; king (of the senior player)

14

outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else

57

account; history; chronicle; Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters

2

car; vehicle

3

circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs

8

to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint

22

crown prince; Prince Shōtoku

1

heir; successor

1

mourning; (arch.) calamity; (arch.) misfortune

1

Ute

1

inner palace (reserved for women); harem; seraglio; consort of the emperor

1

child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)

3

(giving) birth; childbirth; native of; product of; assets; property

1

monk; priest; sangha (the Buddhist community)

7

advice (to a superior); counsel; proposal; suggestion; recommendation

1

doer; performer; protagonist (in noh or kyogen); hero; speculator (in trading)

3

succession; successor

2

everyone; everybody; all; everything; all

57

while alive; during one's lifetime

1

multi-

1

killing; destruction of life; cruel; heartless; callous

5

information; news; report; reward; retribution

7

pure; innocent; pure; unmixed; long kimono made from the same plain-coloured cloth

1

Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama); Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto); fox (said to be messengers of Inari); fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes); inarizushi

8

truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; (arch.) that's right

3

greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice

4

something; what; why; how

1

ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition

2

and; moreover; besides; as well as; and on top of that; at the same time

1

Fire Dog (23rd year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1946, 2006, 2066)

2

raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); live (i.e. not recorded); inexperienced

17

genus; generic

1

the most; the extreme; prime; conspicuous

2

algae; waterweed; seaweed; duckweed

1

good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial

1

purpose for which money is spent; the way money is spent; how goods are used

1

(arch.) like that; (arch.) as such; yeah; uh-huh

1

empress dowager; queen mother

1