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• type of bed linen resembling a large beach towel and used to cover oneself in hot weather - From English "towel blanket"

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• ring; link
• open spirals of heavy metal wire twisted into a kettle and used to lift it (tea ceremony)

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• kitchen-cum-office of a Zen temple or monastery, where meals are prepared and senior priests have their offices

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• holding a course (of lectures); offering a course
• beginning a series of one's lectures; starting a new course

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• black Japanese striped snake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese black ratsnake ➜ 縞蛇【しまへび】

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• Japanese jack mackerel; Japanese horse mackerel (Trachurus japonicus)

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• Japanese company active abroad; company partly funded by Japanese nationals

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• praying for the coming of a deity
• ceremonial transfer of a divided tutelary deity to a new location ➜ 分霊

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• The Circle of Rainbow Light; Japanese religious group based on the teachings of Aum Shinrikyo ➜ オウム真理教

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• in and out; income and expenses; free associations; run of the house

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• studies in usages and practices of the ancient court and military households - four character idiom

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• exercising self-restraint and conforming to the rules of etiquette and formality - four character idiom

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• jealousy and enmity; being jealous of and at odds with (each other) - four character idiom

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• jealousy and enmity; being jealous of and at odds with (each other) - four character idiom

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• Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan - abbreviation

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• waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae ➜ 短歌

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• Dodompa (a rumba-like Japanese musical genre popular in the 1960s)

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• A Plan for Remodeling the Japanese Archipelago (1972 LDP policy proposal)

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• low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.)
• Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds) ➜ 山の手

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• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow)
• staining a pattern on fabric or paper by rubbing it with indigo leaves

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• proportional representation system in which both party and individual votes are cast, seats are distributed amongst parties by proportion of vote obtained, and candidates are elected in descending order of number of votes obtained ➜ 拘束名簿式比例代表制

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• once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime - four character idiom

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• observing and reviewing the effects of a drug after it has been released onto the market

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• Blue Sky with a White Sun; party flag and emblem of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)

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• (pair of) wooden doors in the interior of a home
• door to a pavilion in a Heian period palace ➜ 寝殿造