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Kuta

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eating between meals; snacking

1

knight

1

navel; belly button; protrusion or depression in the middle of an object; center; centre

1

body; group; party; company; troupe

3

Zen monk's early morning meal; refreshment; cakes; simple Chinese food; dim sum

2

light eating; spare diet; not eating much

1

broth made of fish and vegetables

6

icefish (Salangidae spp., esp. the Japanese icefish, Salangichthys microdon); noodlefish; whitebait

1

kudzu starch

1

freezing weather; agar-agar; vegetable gelatin

2

rice cracker; senbei; Japanese cracker; rice cookie; wafer

3

small, round cookie; small, round biscuit

1

konpeitō; small coloured sugar candy covered with tiny bulges

1

cookie; biscuit

1

toffee

1

sweet of egg yolks drawn into strands and boiled in sugar syrup (orig. from Portugal); angel hair; fios de ovos

1

castle town; city in Japan that developed around the castle of a feudal lord

1

traditional Kyoto-style confectionery (often used in tea ceremony)

1

quality cakes

1

to concentrate; to devote; to apply; to strain; to rack

1

great fortune; good luck; rice cake stuffed with bean jam

3

very rich person; the super rich

1

fundamental; basic

2

material; physical

2

social ethics

1

action; behavior; behaviour; (arch.) recommendation (of a person for a position)

4

political thought; political philosophy; political idea; idea about politics

3

Han dynasty (China, 202 BCE-220 CE)

1

studying for a test (esp. school or university entrance examinations)

1

becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality

4

Chinese scholar-bureaucrat; Chinese scholar-official

1

elite bureaucrat; high government official; high-ranking bureaucrat; senior government official

1

political ethics

1

recognizing anew; seeing something in a new light

1

fundamental (basic) principles; fundamentals; ground rules

3

sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course

1

space-time

1

ruler and ruled; master and servant

1

human relations; personal relationships

1

influence (on someone); inspiration

2

Kyoto Gozan; the five most important Rinzai temples of Kyoto

1

supplementary reader

1

giving a lecture in the Emperor's presence; lecturing to the Emperor

3

document; official papers

1

drafting (e.g. a bill); drawing up

1

government school

1

to open up a path; to clear a path; to open up doors; to pave the way

3

squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii); Lepisorus thunbergianus (species of fern); color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue); ancient women's hairstyle; clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern

4

period of youth; while young

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