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party position

various forms of arts (e.g. acrobatics, magic, puppetry, sarugaku acrobatics performance)

to plant oneself

to keep company

being painfully true (e.g. reprimand)

to be self-complacent

new-generation

Edo-era meat vendor (esp. of large game, e.g. deer, boar)

diligent worker

style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho)

sacrifice something small in order to save something great

ambulacral zone (on echinoderms)

various buddhas, bodhisattvas, deities, etc.

footprint of the Buddha carved in stone

withered trees and cold ash

young boy or girl being trained as a geisha or as a kabuki actor

poets can stay in one place and still know all the famous sights

seeing for the first time

suit your speech to the audience

tehonbiki (type of card game associated with gambling)

loanword

draft of magazine's content (a table showing the allocation of each page)

direct kanji input (as opposed to kana-kanji conversion)

soy flour made from parched green soybeans

playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century

to add to one's experience

imperial prince

Anglo-Maratha Wars (1777-1783, 1803-1805, 1817-1818)

light greenish-blue

Weil's disease (severe form of leptospirosis)