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deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid

5

three generations; three periods; third generation

3

generation; lifetime; age

2

enjoying a long life is a matter for congratulation; (lit.) cranes live for 1000 years, turtles live for 10,000 years

1

worldwide; global; international; world-famous; world-class

12

stork (esp. the Oriental stork, Ciconia boyciana)

1

to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call

1

nest-building; making a hive, web, den, etc.

1

one's own child; one's own children

36

child rearing; child raising; raising children; parenting

18

intimate; close

12

hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory

138

ring; loop (of rope); halo (of an angel)

4

brood parasitism (planting one's eggs in another bird's nest, as demonstrated by the cuckoo, etc.)

12

another species; other species

4

to crowd out; to push out; to start together; to set out en masse; to highlight; to draw attention to

8

to hatch; to incubate

1

hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing

5

to do

6

raw egg

2

to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)

14

bean curd lees; soybean pulp; refuse from tofu; deutzia; Deutzia crenata

1

field

2

to fly; to soar

1

tachibana orange (Citrus tachibana)

1

all day; for a whole day

2

reward; present; gift; offering to the gods

1

worldly affairs; public affairs

1

lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

10

blooming tachibana; tachibana flower

1

traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven; long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century)

1

long (time); protracted; prolonged

1

antiquity; ancient times

1

reproduction

2

to add (to); to add on; to append

15

entrusting (something to a person); consignment (of goods); putting in someone's charge; trust; commission

3

breeding; multiplication; increase; propagation; reproduction

7

efficient

14

beginning and end; from beginning to end; result; outcome; dealing with something successfully

7

rooting up (weeds, etc.); eradication; rooting out; stamping out

2

family; relatives; dependents; household

24

transmigration; reincarnation; metempsychosis

10

old bird

1

to blaze; to burn brightly

14

fire

1

to crowd; to flock; to swarm

3

dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward)

1

mawashi; belt; mantle; cape; gang rape

11

your (his) mother

2

mimesis; mimicry; camouflage

14