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door separating the inner castle from the outer castle (Edo period)
to lament the end of spring
deciding the order of players (by drawing one card each; highest draw deals)
imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods)
court ladies' residence (in the inner Heian Palace)
to be mixed up with
wisteria flower
first lunar month
written imperial order (late Heian period)
late frost
fifth lunar month
discarded fan (in autumn)
colonization policy
to eat a boxed lunch
fifth lunar month
expanded edition (of a dictionary)
banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus)
plantar flexion
corner
king of Yamato
to systematize
fan in autumn (esp. one that is no longer used)
Dลtanuki school (Muromachi-period swordsmithing school)
to touch each other
lantern ghost
Hakke Shinto (Shinto tradition transmitted by the House of Hakuo Shirakawa)
firing practice with live ammunition
small festival on the eve of the main festival (esp. of the Gion festival)
gene
smoky fire to repel mosquitoes