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to transfer (to a different place, group, etc.); to change; to move to the next stage (of a plan, etc.); to divert (one's attention) to; to focus on (something different); to spend (time); to let (time) pass

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

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supreme command; high command

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family; clan; sect; school; group of related sumo stables

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Enryaku era (782.8.19-806.5.18)

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counter for temples

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many priests; (Heian era) monk-soldiers

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nobility; aristocracy; peerage

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Kobe (city)

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foolish undertaking

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lively; active; vigorous; animated; brisk

1

imperial palace; festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress

1

various buddhas

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(a multitude of) gods

1

to remove; to deinstall; to take away; to set apart

1

seal; to seal (e.g. a letter); to affix a seal; to seal up

3

freedom; free man; free woman

1

in full force; in great numbers; in droves; large-scale project; grand plan

3

slaughter; massacre

3

difference; discrepancy; variation

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large temple

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temple (Buddhist)

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temple solicitation

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influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne

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Yoritomo

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Kamakura (city)

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archery and horsemanship

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to discuss; to talk together

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to do one's best; to put forth every effort

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request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance

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to tie; to fasten; to hitch; to secure (trust, patronage of customers, etc.); to keep (an employee, someone's interest, etc.); to save (someone's life)

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discovery; detection; finding

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to approach (one's) death; to face (one's) death

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to lose one's way; to get lost; to waver; to hesitate; to be captivated (by); to be infatuated (with)

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nirvana; supreme enlightenment; death; death of Buddha

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assistant ...; probationary ...

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purity; spotlessness

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pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha); (Buddhist) paradise; Pure Land Buddhism

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waterfall; (arch.) rapids

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clean; clear; pure; honest; clean

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this and that; this person and that person; anybody

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to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)

2

grudge; ill will; enmity

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period; Nihon Shoki (second oldest work of Japanese history, compiled in 720 CE); Nihongi; Kii (former province located in present-day Wakayama and southern Mie prefectures)

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state (of the US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. of Canada); continent; province (of Japan); province (of ancient China); prefecture

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Nachidaki

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Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867); Edo shogunate

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sacred place; holy ground; the Holy Land; real-life location used as a setting in a novel, film, anime, etc.

2

sunlight; sunshine; Nikkō (city in Tochigi); Suryaprabha (bodhisattva)

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avatamsa (flower adornment, as a metaphor for becoming a buddha); Avatamska sutra; Kegon (sect of Buddhism)

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