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severe (personality)

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

Board of Retainers (Kamakura and Muromachi-period government office)

display box (for products)

laudation

meridian flow (in traditional Chinese medicine)

prostitute from the Yoshiwara district of a fairly high rank (Edo period)

prostitute of the second rank (below the tayū; Edo period)

thoughts

office (usu. for construction, maintenance, services, etc.)

result of one's blood, sweat, and tears

clear glass

perfectly clear mirror

heat-resistant glass (e.g. Pyrex)

desolate (e.g. plains)

unidentified craft said to have washed ashore in Ibaraki Prefecture during the Edo period (sometimes alleged to have been a UFO)

combined immunodeficiency

urine sampling

unglazed reddish brown pottery (originally from China)

narrow

flour made from parched rice or barley

one shoulder exposed (e.g. because one sleeve of the kimono is undone)

Tang lunar calendar (used for 823 years in Japan)

to expand

land near a castle

factory closure

ocular tension

Sunni (Islam)

building on the greater palace grounds used by the emperor for viewing horse racing, horseback archery, etc.

corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture)