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dancing or jumping for joy

Act for Securing the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Undertakings and Improved Working Conditions for Dispatched Workers

man who takes his wife's family name and marries into her family

to shoot dead

disliking

without omission

tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one)

forming a familial relationship (through adoption, marriage, etc.)

disagreeableness

(death from) starvation

annoying

to lose (a chance)

common raccoon (Procyon lotor)

to lean (to one side)

Hōreki era (1751.10.27-1764.6.2)

Hōgen era (1156.4.27-1159.4.20)

Gentoku era (1329.8.29-1331.8.9)

Koshien Stadium (baseball park in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture)

imperial lineage from Emperor Gofukakusa to Emperor Gokomatsu

construction camp

Hōtoku era (1449.7.28-1452.7.25)

fried finely minced daikon, great burdock, carrot and shiitake mushrooms wrapped with crumbled tofu in dried beancurd and deep-fried

Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

word-hunting

Edo-period doctor working at a public clinic

Vairocana

auspicious occasion

violent robber

group (of people)

Jōwa era (of the Northern Court) (1345.10.21-1350.2.27)