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blindness; blind person; illiteracy; illiterate person; ignorance; ignoramus

2

Soga

8

barrier; gate; seki (in go); mutual life

1

to pass down (a story) from generation to generation; to hand down

1

blindness

2

fantasy; illusion; vision; dream

3

revised edition (of a book or manuscript); authoritative edition; standard edition; final version of a book as edited by the author; revised edition of a book as edited by the author

1

at a young age; while still young

1

one's last moment; one's death; one's end

2

revengeful ghost; apparition

1

vengeful spirit (spawned from a person's hate); doppelgänger; co-walker; mankind; souls; people

1

narrator; storyteller; reciter

3

before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand

2

optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion

2

to survive

1

Kaison

2

tiger (Panthera tigris); drunkard; drunk; sot

3

to inherit; to succeed; to take over

1

to live long; to survive

1

first-hand account

1

Wakasa (former province located in the south of present-day Fukui Prefecture)

1

800; eight hundred; multitude; large number

5

projection

1

tuft (of hair, threads, etc.); fringe; bunch (of grapes, bananas, etc.); cluster (of flowers); segment (of a tangerine, etc.); section

4

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

2

mermaid; merman

1

master and servant; lord and retainer; employer and employee

1

to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy

1

to regret

2

perpetual youth and longevity; immortality

1

to have a child

1

everywhere; all over; throughout

1

fifty; 50

2

death anniversary; Buddhist anniversary service

1

deceased husband; late husband

1

traveling throughout the country (travelling)

1

oddity; eccentricity; peculiarity

1

the mere shadow of one's former self; the ruin of what one once was

1

teahouse; (Edo period) rest stop; (geisha) teahouse; establishment where patrons are entertained by geisha; tea house (that sells tea); tea dealer

1

old woman; joker (card); hag; bitch

1

kouta; traditional ballad accompanied by shamisen

4

Kiyoji

1

(arch.) clearly; (arch.) brightly; cleanly; purely

1

writing brush; writing; handwriting

1

heroine; female protagonist

1

all of a sudden; suddenly; by chance; unexpectedly

1

long sentence; long piece of writing (e.g. passage, letter, article, telegram)

1

to become weak; to decline; to wear; to abate; to decay; to wither

1

Fuyuu

3

to take; to carry (something) away; to bear

1