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Nara prefecture (Kinki area)

1

Shimane prefecture (Chūgoku area)

1

zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch

3

Awa (former province located in present-day Tokushima Prefecture)

4

Tokushima (city, prefecture)

2

Wakayama prefecture (Kinki area)

1

both prefectures

2

good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)

2

British person

1

well done!; good job!; good work!; you did it!; bravo!

1

new land; new world; new sphere of activity

1

to lick all over; to run one's tongue over

2

present (e.g. government, administration); current; existing

1

(present) head of a family

1

to be scattered; to straggle; to be found here and there

1

without; but if; otherwise; or else

2

terminus; last stop (e.g. train)

2

to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.); to relate; to tell of; to show; to indicate

2

to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do

4

castle site; ruins of a castle

1

police investigator; investigator

1

to move (house); to transfer (department); to change the target of interest or concern; to elapse (passage of time); to be permeated by a colour or scent; to be infected

2

birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin

1

Ebrahim

1

Mindanao (island)

1

criminal record

1

Moro Islamic Liberation Front

2

armed struggle

1

(the police) wanting (someone) for questioning; having (someone) on the wanted list

1

extreme; radical

2

al-Qaeda (militant Islamic fundamentalist group); al-Qaida

2

Abu Sayyaf

2

to be under control; to burn down; to decline; to drop; to wane

2

remnants; survivors; refugees; pocket (of resistance)

1

terrorist

2

to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size

2

dusky; dim; shady

2

to stick up (hair, etc.); to stand up straight; to stand up abruptly; to jump to one's feet; to stand in one place, doing nothing in particular; to stand around

2

shadow figure; silhouette

1

stone pillar

4

to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)

3

thank you; thanks; much (thanks); very (sorry); quite; really; somehow

2

waste land; wilderness; moor; field; plain

2

island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf

1

to name; to call; to christen; to term

1

Ebisu; god of fishing and commerce

1

residence; housing; residential building

1

crowding together; clustering together; close formation; swarm

1

area; zone; (lit.) belt (of land)

1

surely; certainly; no doubt; indeed

1