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battle standard decorated with hanging strips of paper or leather; fireman's standard (Edo period)

9

spirit; psyche; god; deity; divinity

2

(sense of) crushing evil and spreading the truth

5

secrets; mysteries

4

to cover (with something); to put on (e.g. on someone else's head); to plate something (with a metal); to pour or dash a liquid (on something); to charge (a person with a guilt)

1

center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused

2

self-determination; suicide

1

manly; sportsmanlike; pure (heart, actions, etc.); upright; (arch.) unsullied (e.g. scenery or object); (arch.) pure

1

anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest

1

thunderous; rumbling; thunderously; rumblingly

2

to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress

1

on the contrary

1

sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air

2

floating; drifting; suspension; (arch.) wandering (about)

2

form of magic or divination (e.g. animating objects to act as the sorcerer's agent)

9

India

1

Garuda

1

Buddhism

1

Buddhist teachings; Buddhism

1

protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)

2

long and large; tall and large; grand; huge

1

red (color, colour)

1

all living things; mankind; the people; the world

2

injury; harm; evil influence; damage

3

sacred bird

1

fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking

4

to wear a mask; to hide one's true intentions

1

bright red; crimson lotus flower

1

pair; couple

1

to grow; to spring up; to sprout; to cut (teeth)

1

different (quality, nature); heterogeneous

1

thick; dense; rich (as in taste or content); crowded

2

eternal; unlimited; endless

1

in plain words; in plain terms; put simply

1

God; god; ace; king; superior person

2

gods and Buddha; Shinto and Buddhism

2

20 years old; (arch.) twenty

1

the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)

1

being able to do as one pleases; doing at will; pothook

1

sudden drop; sharp fall; nosedive; swoop

2

to breathe

1

difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)

1

action of making something; -ification

2

because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...

1

trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support

2

practitioner (of medicine, sorcery, fortune telling, etc.)

9

reaction; recoil; kick; backlash

2

adverse circumstances; adversity

1

in a crowd; in droves; crawling (of insects); swarming; dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing

1

counter for people

2