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to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. joke)

3

retainer; subject; vassal; servant

1

refutation; rebuttal; retort

1

there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)

1

objection; dissent; protest

1

to declare; to plead

1

molars; back teeth

1

jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)

2

to be square; to be angular; to be jagged; to be formal; to be stiff; to be ceremonious

1

(not) anything; (nothing) at all; (not) any

1

decision; determination; resolution

1

sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword); rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony

1

zori; traditional Japanese thonged sandals

1

taking; taker; last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day; active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration); emphatic or formal prefix

2

wall; fence

1

dripping; trickling; drop by drop; in drops

1

to hold one's tongue; to shut up

2

one drop (of fluid)

1

to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with

1

accurate; correct; precise; exact

1

spring day; spring sunlight

1

foot (of a mountain or hill); bottom; base

1

tenets (of a religious sect); doctrines; (religious) sect; denomination; one's principles; one's tastes

1

Soto Zen

1

(act of) building (temple, monument, etc.); erection

1

one's family temple; temple with one's family grave

1

chief priest (of a Buddhist temple)

1

gentle; mild; meek; tender

2

elderly priest

1

priest in charge of a temple's clerical duties

2

to act as an agent for; to intermediate; to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to convey (a message)

3

full bloom (esp. of cherry blossom); full blossom

1

heavily laden (of a branch); sagging; drooping; bent low

1

to tell; to announce; to declare; to pass (a sentence); to order

2

of no use whatsoever; good for nothing; useless

1

idle complaint; grumble; moha (ignorance, folly)

1

call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)

1

attendance at a castle

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Torachiyo

6

one's mother

2

the world; society; sphere; circle; world-renowned; world-famous

1

(arch.) archer (esp. a samurai); (arch.) (skilled) archer; (arch.) bowman; (arch.) dominion of a whole province by a military family; bow-twirling ceremony at the end of a day of sumo wrestling

1

liking; taste; choice

1

intentionally; deliberately; designedly; especially; particularly

3

adult (esp. person 20 years old or over); grownup; becoming an adult; coming of age; growing up (to be a man, woman)

2

(words to) that effect

1

seventy; 70

3

old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly

2

good health

1

Hades; the underworld; the other world; realm of the dead

1