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• five residences for court ladies (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 後宮

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• bringing out the pillows and futon (in Zen Buddhism); sleeping - Buddhism term

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• medium-ranked councillor in the Department of State ➜ 太政官・令外の官

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• wobbegong (eleven species of carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae)

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• double election (e.g. of the lower and higher chambers)

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• Chinese-style vegetarian cuisine (popular in the Edo period)

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• men who have slept with the same woman; hole brothers [literal] - vulgar - slang ➜ 竿姉妹

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• Tōhoku harvest divination event (14th night of the New Year) ➜ 年占

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• curved nose
• crosspatch
• male salmon in the breeding season

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• Asiatic glassfish (e.g. the Indian glassy fish, Parambassis ranga)

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• costume for women serving in the inner palace (Heian period) - archaism

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• tax exemption for a child under the age of 16

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• text at the foot of a page, document, screen, etc.

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• onstage appearance of the jōruri musicians and chanters (in kabuki) ➜ 浄瑠璃

noun:

• hood made useless by the warmer weather of spring

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• curling inwards (esp. the tips of one's hair)

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• Yama's pole (with a human head on the top) - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

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• abhidharma; texts that contain detailed reworkings of the Buddhist sutras - Buddhism term

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• Heterodonta (subclass of bivalve molluscs, including the clams and cockles)

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• unimpeded bodily function (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通

noun:

• Actinostemma lobatum (plant of the family Cucurbitaceae)

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• the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened - Buddhism term

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• old orogenic belt; mountain belts formed in the Palaeozoic era

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• Lagomorpha; order comprising the rabbits, hares and pikas

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• sociolect spoken in the Tokyo area by gyaru - Linguistics term ➜ ギャル