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anniversary of Shiki Masaoka's death (September 19)

Maratha Confederacy

history of poetry (esp. Chinese)

extractor (rifle)

center versus periphery theory

to be visible through

polyunsaturated fatty acid

special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi)

egg-laying hen

perpendicular distribution

Kushan dynasty (of India; approx. 60-375 CE)

Okuninushi

achievement of one's goal

a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow (metaphor for the transience of life)

white powder for use on the neck (e.g. by geisha)

Taoist sexual alchemy (supposed to prolong the practitioner's life)

thatched-roof gate (used as the entrance to a garden, esp. of a tea ceremony house)

chrysalis of a swallowtail butterfly (esp. of species Atrophaneura alcinous)

curtain separating a central room from the aisles around it (in palatial-style architecture)

wedding hall

fluorescent color

maximum carrying capacity

low-class prostitute who was kept in a sort of cage at the front of the establishment (Edo period)

iron-reinforced warships built by Oda Nobunaga

crystal lattice

crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony

international index

crystallization differentiation

prostitute of the lowest class (Edo period)

sauteed vegetables with fish or poultry made into a stew