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for some years

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dhyana (profound meditation); Zen (Buddhism)

1

keen or piercing eye

1

skillfully; admirably; really well; excellently

1

noble; aristocrat; peer

1

religion; religious affiliation; belief; religious activity

1

general public

1

to exert (influence); to exercise; to cause (e.g. damage); to do (e.g. harm); to bring about (e.g. benefits); to extend

1

evil or corrupt or abusive practice

2

convention; tired tradition; old custom

2

Buddhist

1

farsightedness; insight

1

stark naked; nude; bare; unvarnished (e.g. truth); plain (e.g. fact); frank

2

character and conduct

1

frowning on; looking on with scorn; showing disapproval

2

drought; long spell (period) of dry weather

2

periodic thinning (e.g. forest)

2

to continue for a long time; to undergo a repeated series

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pavilion used as the emperor's habitual residence (in Heian Palace)

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land-locked variety of red-spotted masu trout (Oncorhynchus masou ishikawae); amago

1

execution; carrying out; performance; lead monk performing various tasks in a temple

2

to set aside; to keep in reserve; to preserve; to save; to put in; to lay in

1

prayer; grace (at meals); exorcism

4

cylinder

3

on the occasion of; at the time of

3

one drop (of fluid)

1

Chouken

4

audience with the Emperor; imperial audience

1

heavy rain

3

three days and three nights

1

Kamogawa

1

to overflow; to brim over; to flood

3

noted priest; celebrated priest

1

present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)

1

as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); still; all the same; even ... (e.g. "even a genius")

2

mysterious power

2

fame; reputation; renown

1

(medical) doctor; physician

3

to aggravate; to complicate; to make worse

1

point where one has to accept one's fate; point where one has to give up; state of resignation; resigned state

1

state of mind; mental state; mental attitude

2

demon of ill health; disease

1

to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

2

good luck; fortune

2

revival from the brink of death; recovering from a hopeless situation; resuscitation; revitalization

1

noted doctor; excellent physician

1

dry weather; drought

1

to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough

2

the power of Buddha

1

supernatural power; divine power; magical power

1