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Kansai dialect

2

Quanzhou (China); Chinchew

3

Hiroshima (city, prefecture)

9

to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky

1

to tidy up; to put in order; to settle (problem); to clear (dispute); to finish; to bring something to an end

1

miso soup

1

lightly seasoned

1

parking lot (esp. a private lot, e.g. for corporate cars); car park

1

parking lot; car park; carpark; parking garage

1

blackboard eraser

1

Fukko Shinto; Restoration Shinto; Reform Shinto (prominent 18th century form of Shinto, based on the classics, and free from Confucian and Buddhist influences)

2

reverence for the emperor; advocate of imperial rule

1

pioneering; path-breaking; trailblazing

3

Kinoshita Katsutoshi

2

Mosui

2

Siddham studies

1

family of Shinto priests serving a shrine on a hereditary basis

1

praise; admiration; exalting; extolling

1

to open the door (to the world, women, etc.)

1

theology

2

activist

2

origin

1

to; for; from the standpoint of; as far as ... is concerned

1

mysterious disappearance; being spirited away

2

supernatural phenomenon; paranormal phenomenon; anomalous phenomenon

1

fairyland; enchanted land

1

strange tale; curious report; strange report

1

dwelling place of hermits; pure land away from the world

1

Torakichi

1

sand dune; sand hill

25

Tottorisakyuu

9

Tottori prefecture (Chūgoku area)

2

Kujuukurihama

2

grand; far-reaching; ambitious

2

Nakatajimasakyuu

2

Chuugokusanchi

1

to blow into; to breathe into; to inspire; to indoctrinate; to record (music, video, etc.)

1

prevailing wind

1

(earthenware) mortar (for grinding)

1

wind-wrought pattern on the sands

1

stripe; streak; striation

1

to crumble down; to tumble down; to fall in

1

bamboo screen; rattan blind

1

maneuvering ground; manoeuvering ground

1

windbreak (forest); shelterbelt

1

Arishima Takeo (1878-1923)

3

to cramp; to be cramped; to contract

1

sandy soil

1

desert

2

Edano

1