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to be too numerous; to be too much

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ornament; decoration

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intricate; elaborate; complicated; complex

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to think; to use one's head; to exercise one's brains

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night chat; tale told at night; evening tea party (starting around 6pm)

5

blackout curtain

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garden lantern; hanging lantern

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candle

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remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude

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to put away one's bedding; to recover from an illness (and put away one's sickbed)

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to begin (doing); to start; to set about; to get down to

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theme; topic; subject matter; motif; project; slogan

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mounting (of a picture); binding (of a book)

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tea offering to the gods

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popular; well-liked; common; frequent; popular music; pop music

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Urasenke school of tea ceremony

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eastern; east; Tokyo

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head of a school (of music, dance); head family of a school

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marker; grader; scorer

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comfortable; carefree

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writing (especially of a Zen monk); penmanship

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harvest moon (trad. 15th day of the 8th lunar month)

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to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become

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Tang dynasty (of China; 618-907); T'ang dynasty; (arch.) China; (arch.) foreign country

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representative; exemplary; model

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poet

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Oui; Wang Wei (ca. 701-761 CE; Chinese poet and artist)

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poem of four lines, each of five (Chinese) characters

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section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.; maxim

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deep and quiet bamboo grove

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one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself

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to sit; to squat; to be implicated

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koto (13-stringed Japanese zither); (arch.) stringed instrument

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usofuki; kyogen mask with bulging eyes and pursed lips (as if whistling)

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playing on the koto

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deep forest

2

being unknown; not knowing; ignorance; foolishness

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to mutually shine on (each other)

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to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem; to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone

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poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem

3

frequently; often; (staring) fixedly; narrowly; closely

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alias; pseudonym; pen name; nom de plume

2

in person; personally; (do) oneself

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pupil; student; follower

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(plain) hot water; boiled water

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blackout curtain; light-blocking curtain

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another world (esp. in fiction); otherworld; parallel universe; different-dimension world; isekai

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the extraordinary; the unusual; the unexpected

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wooden fence; board fence

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seat; bench; temporary job while looking for a better job or until one marries

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