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ceremony; rite; ritual; service

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festive annual custom

1

every day; daily

1

busy; high-stress; hectic; pressed (with business)

1

thousand years; thousand generations; thousand ages; eternity

16

medium-ranked councillor in the Department of State

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Tamon

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male coming-of-age-ceremony; shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)

1

formality; social rules; social status; social standing; (arch.) amendments and enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryō)

3

putting (a charge) on the room (at a hotel); charging to the room

1

variety of ceremonial dress made of intertwined cloth and silk threads

1

long hakama; trailing hakama

3

knot; tying; bundle; lumping; conclusion; ending

1

to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up

3

to recite; to chant; to cry; to yell; to advocate; to advance

1

white paper (government report)

2

young person; youth; young

2

beginning of the year; the oldest person

2

(New Year's) greetings

1

happy; auspicious; propitious; naive

2

address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; ci (Chinese literary form); ancillary word

1

to stay indoors; to be confined indoors

2

to shift one's attention to; to shift one's focus on

1

to hear of; to learn of

1

situation; developments; outcome

1

last year

3

outer citadel

5

unforeseen; unexpected; sudden; accidental

3

since then; after that

1

New Year

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auspicious event

1

beginning of the year; new year; New Year's call; New Year's greetings

1

return of a courtesy; returning one's thanks; return salute; return call

1

imperial envoy; imperial messenger

2

honor; honour; glory; (arch.) prosperity

1

incidentally; at the same time

1

private individual

1

defilement; impurity; object (perceived with the mind or the senses); one billionth

1

to shed light; to cast light

1

when; at what moment; what time

1

curse; divine punishment; wrath (of an angry spirit)

1

hollow; cavity; hole

1

joke; jest; banter

1

to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (boredom, sorrow, etc.); to conceal (e.g. one's grief with a smile); to hide; to shift (the conversation)

2

unwelcome favor; unwelcome favour; misplaced kindness

1

returning (to the authorities); restoring

1

intelligence; discernment

1

optional; voluntary; arbitrary; arbitrary

1

in good health; alive and well; going strong

1

audience (with a superior, e.g. nobility); visiting card; name card

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