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check; keeping in check; containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; pickoff throw; holding a runner on base

1

Yamashiro (former province located in the south of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)

3

to rise (of a building, mountain, etc.); to tower; to soar

2

requiem

1

cigarette; cig; smoke; fag

1

wig; hairpiece

10

headgear; headdress; (novelty) mask; head mask

1

guess; conjecture

3

to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct

1

imperial capital

1

change; transformation; inversion

3

to lower; to be lowered

1

in the end; on top of that

1

rim; brim; edge; brink

2

group; flock; crowd; wide expanse (of flowers)

3

Hokuriku region of Honshu (incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)

1

Shinanogawa

1

to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)

2

United Kingdom; Britain; English (language)

1

male; manly; brave; larger (of the two); greater; (arch.) man

3

kindling; small bits of scrap wood used to fuel a stove

1

forever; in perpetuity

1

noble; aristocrat; peer

4

burr (e.g. chestnut); bur; cupule; case

3

name; title; appellation; (under the) pretext (of); pretense

2

as one would expect; naturally; indeed; still; all the same; after all

2

a tour

1

court musician; minstrel

3

body; group; party; company; troupe

3

puppet; marionette; puppeteer; (arch.) prostitute

9

disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem

4

to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort

1

device; instrument; vessel; container; ability; capacity

3

greatly; really

1

to carry in one's hand; to carry with one; to have on one's person; to take along (someone); to take (someone) with one; to be accompanied by

3

to knit; to plait; to braid; to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit

1

countries

4

to catch one's attention

1

vagrancy; vagabondage; wander around

1

puppeteer; puppet player

1

classification; categorization; sorting

1

festivities; celebration; wedding; marriage ceremony

7

unexpectedly; surprisingly

1

to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than

1

hidden village (esp. hidden retreat for nobles or refuge for soldiers of a defeated army); isolated village; legendary land (deep in mountains or underground); Shangri-La

5

to inherit; to succeed; to take over

1

worry; care; concern; ennui; boredom

1

residence

1

rook

1

religion; cult

1