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study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science

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Sugawara no Michizane (845-903)

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mayfly; ephemerality (of life); (arch.) dragonfly

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Fujiwaranomichitsunanohaha

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politics; government

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Dazaifu

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demotion; relegation; reduction in rank; degradation; downward move

1

unable to let go (e.g. of one's feelings); stuck in the past; regretful; irresolute

1

vengeful ghost; avenging spirit; apparition

5

imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000

3

Kazusa (former province located in the central part of present-day Chiba Prefecture)

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The Tale of Genji (Heian-period classic)

5

longing for; burning desire

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rolled egg; rolled omelette (omelet); fried egg; frying pan for making rolled eggs

2

first 17-syllable verse of a renga; haiku; first five-syllable line of a tanka

1

(a) Buddha; deceased person

2

light purple; mauve

2

uneasy; unsure; unreliable; untrustworthy; (arch.) nervous; (arch.) impatient

2

Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari); the Minamoto family

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screen

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to lie down (in bed); to retire (to bed); to become bedridden (with an illness)

1

empress (consort); queen (consort)

3

worldly affairs; public affairs

2

exaltation; emotional uplift

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half-eaten

1

full load; being fully loaded (with); being full of (articles, photos, etc.; of a newspaper or magazine); being packed with (e.g. fun, excitement)

2

to exude (e.g. sweat); to ooze; to seep out; to reveal itself (of emotions, etc.)

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to cook (grains, e.g. rice); to boil; to simmer; to get angry; to snap

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drawstring purse; money pouch; pouch of fried tofu stuffed with var. ingredients, used in oden; hanger-on; follower; (arch.) unlicensed prostitute (Edo period)

15

strips of dried gourd

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real time

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aloneness; loneliness; solitude

1

to grow old; to age

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natsumikan (Citrus natsudaidai); Japanese summer orange

1

to start eating

1

bubbliness (of a carbonated drink); sound of bubbles (of a carbonated drink); fluffiness (of a cake, souffle, whipped cream)

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melon-flavoured soda

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soda

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Tabasco (sauce)

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bur (of a chestnut, etc.); burr; irritating (e.g. one's throat); thorny; (arch.) crying of a baby

3

jellyfish

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omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; skimping; tenuki; playing elsewhere on the board instead of responding locally

4

garbage dump; dump site

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to repaint; to paint again

2

revolution; 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)

2

worker; (manual) laborer; labourer; blue-collar worker

5

water balloon

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man's weeping (esp. of someone not prone to tears)

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to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer

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amount of sugar; sugar content

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