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overall

1

completion; perfection; accomplishment

1

help; rescue; salvation; solace; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace

1

feeling of satisfaction

1

to disappear (gradually); to be vanishing; to fade away; to go out of sight; to die out

1

psychiatrist

1

feeling; sensation; tentative; rough; interjection

1

regarding highly; attaching importance to

1

to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed

1

meeting; rendezvous; meeting for the first time; coming across; confluence

1

to let go by; to let pass; to overlook; to miss

1

to pass; to pass by

1

phenomenon

1

to go through; to pierce; to run through (e.g. a river through a city); to pass through; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out

1

trust (in); confidence; faith; reliance

9

cooperation; collaboration; association; community; communal use; common possession

31

fantasy; illusion; vision; dream

80

argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise

35

scholar of literature; literary person; man of letters; writer

2

author; writer; novelist; artist

1

father; dad; husband; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); he

1

prolific (writer, artist, etc.); productive; producing many works; writing prolifically

2

complete works; complete collection; complete series

1

three and eight; Arisaka Type 38 rifle

1

volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)

1

plans; arrangement; schedule; program; programme; expectation

1

moving forward (e.g. of a vehicle); onward movement; progress (of work, activities, etc.); advance; progression (of a disease, global warming, etc.); progression (e.g. chord progression)

1

one's chief (literary) work; main work

3

conversion; shift; about-face; switch

2

Shinran (founder of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism, 1173-1262)

1

to give (an example); to list; to summon up (e.g. all of one's energy); to gather; to arrest (a criminal); to capture; to nominate (e.g. for a position)

2

good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)

31

origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient

31

to refuse; to decline; to deny

1

half century

1

classic (work, esp. book); the classics

2

very likely; very probable

1

new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (of China; 9-23 CE)

6

historic; historical

1

one or two; a couple; a few; first and second (place); the top two

1

(how) many times; (how) often

1

to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other

1

talk; dialogue; conversation

1

one's home; one's house

2

croquette

1

to be treated to a meal; to be given a meal

1

literature

4

religion; religious affiliation; belief; religious activity

2

to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical

1

to the end; to the last

1