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character; personality; (fictional) character; character

3

popularity; favorable reputation; high esteem; respect

1

president (of a society); chairman

3

to try one's strength

1

fighting with real swords; game played in real earnest

1

to detain; to check; to restrain; to stop

1

bowling (esp. tenpin)

1

fifth

1

modern architecture; modernist architecture

1

looking for something; searching for something; object being sought

1

original (document, copy, work, text, etc.); root; origin; source

1

light brown; pale brown

5

hardcover; hardback

1

tower; tall building; turret; lookout; (arch.) brothel

27

architectural style

1

technique

2

research study; investigative research

1

deep red; crimson; rouge; lipstick

2

red snow (due to microscopic algae, yellow sand, etc.)

4

strange; unconventional; eccentric; odd; odd number

5

Sanage Shrine

1

monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook

4

pitching ability; counter for throws (of a javelin, bowling ball, etc.); counter for casts (of a line)

2

diameter

2

domestically produced car

1

car radio

1

Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

2

inn town; post town; post-station town

1

wealthy farmer

1

grounds of a Shinto shrine

7

Five Dynasties (of China; 907-979)

1

Kaei era (1848.2.28-1854.11.27)

2

to run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)

1

parade float; festival float

1

industrial arts; craft

1

treasury; treasure house; storehouse; treasure trove; rich source (of)

1

craftsman; artisan; tradesman; worker; workman

1

museum

3

wall iris; roof iris; Iris tectorum; fleur-de-lis

1

Edo (shogunate capital; former name of Tokyo); Yedo

1

last years; closing years; last days; closing days; end; last stage

1

elegance; taste; refinement

1

An'ei era (1772.11.16-1781.4.2)

1

writers and artists; persons who take delight in such refined pursuits as poetry, literature, painting and calligraphy

1

to cross; to intersect; to associate with; to mingle with; to have a sexual relationship; to copulate

1

tearoom; tea house; tea-ceremony room; tea arbour; tea arbor

3

Tenpō era (1830.12.10-1844.12.2)

1

changing completely; transformation

2

to sink; to go down; to pass away; to die; to disappear; to vanish

1

ruin; fall; collapse; downfall; bankruptcy

1