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• Yamato (province) ➜ 大和
• Japan ➜ 日本
• the art of classical Japanese poetry - abbreviation ➜ 敷島の道

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• large warship of the Muromachi and early Edo periods

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• early phase of the shoin-zukuri residential architecture style ➜ 書院造

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• type of dance where the ground is stamped (Heian period) ➜ 歌垣

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• banquet and concert pavilion (of the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 七殿・十七殿

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

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• Hozukius emblemarius (species of fish closely related to the rockfish)

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• tax exemption for a child under the age of 16

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• attack (esp. a corner approach in the game of go)

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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

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• 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

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• 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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• silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot

noun:

• breast
• rounded part on the upper end of shamisen neck

noun:

• nineteenth day of the month
• nineteen days
• fool; simpleton - slang - archaism

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• Minister for the Restoration from and Prevention of Nuclear Accidents - abbreviation