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seeing through; fluoroscopy; roentgenoscopy; clairvoyance; seeing through (objects)

1

to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard

1

rough-hewn; incomplete; unrefined; still in the process of being formed

1

to throw; to fling; to hurl; to neglect; to abandon; to leave alone

1

freshly painted

1

to decorate gaudily; to overdecorate; to deck out; to embellish

1

tokonoma (alcove where art or flowers are displayed)

1

ornament; decorative object; object placed in a tokonoma; figurehead; leader without real power

1

making light of; thinking little of; slighting; belittling; dismissing; contempt

1

accumulation

1

to tie; to bind; to fasten; to restrict (freedom); to tie down (with rules, regulations, etc.); to fetter

6

three; 3

14

(at a rate of) once a month; 10 percent monthly interest

2

twelve; 12; queen (playing card)

3

months (period of)

3

old friendship

3

end; close; conclusion

2

trikaya (three bodies of the Buddha)

1

the old year; last year

3

New Year

6

to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe

2

bare earth (i.e. ground not covered by a roof); open field; teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)

2

Shiraushi

2

old man; venerable gentleman; venerable; old; father

2

midnight

2

("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra); ten thusnesses (in Tendai)

1

cavern; grotto

2

offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice; twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar; year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat)

2

spring breeze

2

counter for houses, households, apartments, etc.

1

to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty

1

group; crowd; flock; herd; bevy; school

2

small; little; fine

1

moreover; furthermore; nevertheless; and yet

1

to extend; to stretch out; to attend; to participate in; to enrol; to enroll

2

Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)

3

national language; Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan); native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)

3

historical event; ancient event; tradition; folklore; legend

2

next year

1

moment; instant; kshana; duration of a single mental event (about 1/75 second); shortest possible interval of time

3

to change places; to relieve (one another)

1

crossing; intersection

1

at the moment

11

individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)

2

notes; comment; remark; annotation

6

cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood

2

shade; shadow; behind (something); other side; background; behind the scenes

2

advocacy; proposal

2

new and old; incoming and outgoing

7

moment; instant; short amount of time

1