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temporary lodging built to accommodate an Imperial visit

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Buddhist

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(one's) family; dependents; household; follower; retainer; underling

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follower; attendant; valet; servant

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the twelve divine generals (of Bhaisajyaguru)

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(this) shrine; (this) company; (this) firm

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retirement (to a temple of shrine) for prayer

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cloud; look of the sky; kabuki accessory representing a cloud; type of strange mist appearing in the sky, used for divination

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town originally built around a temple or shrine

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merrymaking (esp. wine and women); pleasures

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praying for the coming of a deity; ceremonial transfer of a divided tutelary deity to a new location

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stopping at a port

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Takizawa Bakin (1767-1848)

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entering service (on a route; of a plane or ship); going into commission; being in service

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ferryboat; ferry; passenger boat; shared fishing boat

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popular song; ballad; folk song; ditty

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ceremony fee; money dedicated to the gods when participating in a ceremony

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bundle; package; parcel; counter for wrapped objects

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to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)

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relay

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space; room; vacancy; opening; free time; time to spare

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to hoist a flag

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(flight of) stone steps; stone stairway

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one place; (all in) the same place; one spot; one location; one part; one passage

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to avoid; to refrain from; to shun; to detest

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primeval forest; virgin forest

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to have; to possess

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existing alongside (each other); mixture; intermingling

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fauna

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Blakiston

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original inhabitant; aboriginal; previous priest

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untouched; unused; intact

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northernmost

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within Hokkaido

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amount of snowfall

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regional difference

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snow removal

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summer term (e.g. school); summer period

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polar air mass

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sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air

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the coming year

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drift ice; ice floe

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Sea of Okhotsk

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to cross (e.g. road); to traverse

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sub-; -ous (indicating a low oxidation state); -ite; Asia; Argentina; Arabia; America

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Manchuria

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loudly (flinging open a door); with a clatter; with a crash (e.g. of a falling structure); completely (change); utterly; louvre window (door, vent, etc.)

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brown bear (Ursus arctos)

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Pteromys volans orii (subspecies of the Siberian flying squirrel, endemic to Hokkaido)

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Hokkaido squirrel (subspecies of red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris orientis)

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