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Onbashira Festival; log-dragging festival held once every six years in Suwa, Nagano

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candlestick; candlestand

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miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.); cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.); (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors

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the three character styles: square and semicursive and grass

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principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva); principal image; idol; the man himself; the person at the heart of the matter

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Zaougongen

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pulverization; pulverisation; smashing; demolishing

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trident vajra

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mallet; pestle; pounder

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to make symbolic signs (gestures) with the fingers

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monk; priest; sangha (the Buddhist community)

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colonnade; row of columns

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elderly priest

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distinction

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fine line; weight of thread; slit-eyed

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favorite pupil; favourite pupil; teacher's pet

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impressive; striking; memorable; impactful

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sanpaku eyes (eyes with visible white between the iris and the lower eyelid)

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unruly (e.g. of a child); unyielding; disobedient; strong-willed

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to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)

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shortish; rather short; somewhat short

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in all directions

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to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip

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age-appropriate (esp. of clothing, hairstyles)

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severe; harsh; rigorous; trenchant; scathing; sharp

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mountain range; mountain system

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day and night; around the clock; always; constantly

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adult; grown-up

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bell (often globular)

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credit; money owed on an account; bill; hot noodles in broth; proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price); in the midst of; rest

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bishop's staff; khakkhara

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rosary; string of prayer beads

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to comb back

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looking on (somebody) as hostile

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learned priest pursuing his studies

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if I (we, etc.) could

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arrogance; insolence; disrespect

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goat

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eyebrow

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evening

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aim; object; expectations; prospects; something that can be relied upon; snack served with alcoholic drink; pad

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curse; exorcism

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in camp; at the front

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sincere; honest; faithful

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to have an idea; to have a clue

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Kiyokawa Hachirou (1830.11.24-1863.5.30)

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letter of introduction

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to knock at the gate; to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil

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loyalty to the emperor

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kind; cordial; hospitable; serious (of an illness)

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