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• position at the imperial court in ancient China; grand secretariat ➜ 大学士

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• Chaetodipterus; genus of spadefishes in the family Ephippidae

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• type of smelling salts sold in the late Edo period - archaism

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• Scatophagus; genus of scats in the family Scatophagidae

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• bound almanac; calendar in the form of a book ➜ 柱暦

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• government-run workshop of Buddhist sculptors (during the Nara period) ➜ 仏所

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• mole under the eye (supposedly due to having cried)

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• Litsea coreana (species of tree in the laurel family)

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• traditional mirror with a handle, popular since the Muromachi period Antonym: 紐鏡

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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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• farmland - archaism ➜ 田地
• private farm estates from before the Taika reform - archaism

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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)