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five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)

phrasal verb

cannot be avoided (of a problem, etc.)

slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period)

incense clock (marks time with a smouldering train of incense)

homograph

minuteness

incense clock

consecutive interpretation

tolerant

signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)

Ministry of Personnel (Tang dynasty China)

third person singular present

to shake one's head

to punish (esp. with death)

grains of sand on the beach (i.e. something countless)

office (government department beneath a bureau under the ritsuryō system)

Minister of Works (Zhou dynasty China)

adverbial clause

secured liabilities

Ministry of Justice (in Tang dynasty China)

a leopard cannot change its spots

verb-phrase negation

vigorous

to make a person's blood run cold

erector pili (muscle fiber attached to a hair follicle)

idiophone

Goryeo (dynasty of Korea; 918-1392 CE)

tears of grief

to take command