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endlessly; continuously; (going) on and on; meandering; winding; sinuous

1

nodding off (while sitting); dozing

1

Enryaku era (782.8.19-806.5.18)

1

counter for temples

4

good fortune; happiness; blessing; good luck

1

long-cherished desire; Amida Buddha's original vow

2

temple (Buddhist)

1

Japanese history; history of Japan

3

the whole country

1

to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)

6

Kennyo

1

Jōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect); True Pure Land School

1

country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competition in which there are several evenly matched participants; hotly contested game (match, market, etc.)

1

military commander

1

Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist uprising (Muromachi and Warring States periods)

1

(not) in any way; (not) at all; (none) whatsoever; what kind of

1

comparison; something worthy of comparison

1

spirit; psyche; god; deity; divinity

3

compulsive

1

statesman; administrator; politician; policymaker

3

cold reception; inhospitality

1

persecution; oppression

1

reverence; awe; respect

1

unceasing; relentless

2

system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship

1

raising one's hand; show of hands (e.g. for a vote); salute

1

to turn up (of evidence, etc.); to become known; to be arrested; to be caught (of a criminal); to be moved to a higher position (of a body part); to be raised (e.g. of a hand to ask a question)

1

Emperor of Japan

5

(political) administration; political power

1

Heike family; Taira family; The Tale of the Heike; chanting of the Heike Monogatari

1

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

1

advantage; benefit; profit; interest

1

Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568); Sengoku period; Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE); era of vicious competition

2

to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through

1

to change (with time, the ages, the seasons, etc.); to shift

1

the imperial line

7

samurai family; samurai class; samurai stock; samurai; warrior

1

commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the barbarians (beginning in 794 CE); shogun; great, unifying leader

1

in form; ceremonial; for form's sake; pro forma

1

vassal; retainer

1

Meiji Restoration (1868)

1

new government; new administration

1

reverence for the emperor; advocate of imperial rule

1

centripetal force; unifying force; cohesive power

1

while in class

1

the Imperial Family

4

rare; seldom

1

existing; living; extant

1

the oldest; the earliest

1

extinction (e.g. of a family); dying out; discontinuation; severance (e.g. of relations); rupture; breaking off

1