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そんな see styles |
sonna そんな |
(pre-noun adjective) (1) (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener) (See あんな,こんな,どんな・1) such; that sort of; that kind of; like that; (interjection) (2) (colloquialism) no way!; never! |
タヌキ see styles |
tanuki タヌキ |
(1) (kana only) tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon dog; (2) (kana only) sly dog; sly old fox; sly fox; cunning devil; craftiness; sly person; someone who makes evil plans without ever breaking their poker face |
どうか see styles |
dodoga ドゥガ |
(adverb) (1) (polite language) please; (adverb) (2) somehow or other; one way or another; (personal name) Degas |
どない see styles |
donai ドナイ |
(adjectival noun) (1) (ksb:) (See どんな・1) what kind of; what sort of; what; (adverb) (2) (ksb:) how; in what way; (place-name) Dunai |
ど演歌 see styles |
doenka どえんか |
quintessential enka; enka with age-old lyrical themes set to a haunting traditional-style melody |
なして see styles |
nashite なして |
(expression) (1) (See 成す・1) forming; comprising; making up; (adv,int) (2) (See 如何して・どうして・1) why?; for what reason; how; in what way; for what purpose; what for |
なちい see styles |
nachii / nachi なちい |
(adjective) (colloquialism) (See 懐かしい) dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic |
なつい see styles |
natsui なつい |
(adjective) (abbreviation) (slang) (See 懐かしい・なつかしい) dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic; (female given name) Natsui |
なりに see styles |
narini ナリニ |
(exp,adv) (See 形・なり) in one's own way or style; (personal name) Nalini |
の様に see styles |
noyouni / noyoni のように |
(exp,adv) (1) (kana only) like; similar to; (exp,adv) (2) (kana only) as with; in the same way |
ばばー see styles |
papaa / papa パパー |
(1) (kana only) old woman; (2) (derogatory term) (kana only) hag; bitch; (personal name) Papper |
ヒタキ see styles |
hitaki ヒタキ |
(kana only) Old World flycatcher (any bird of family Muscicapinae, esp. the typical flycatchers of subfamily Muscicapinae) |
ふる里 see styles |
furusato ふるさと |
(1) (kana only) home town; birthplace; native place; one's old home; (2) (archaism) ruins; historic remains |
ベル席 see styles |
beruseki ベルせき |
(noun/participle) (slang) (See 着席) being seated before the school bell rings |
ベル着 see styles |
beruchaku ベルちゃく |
(noun/participle) (slang) (See 着席) being seated before the school bell rings |
ホイ卒 see styles |
hoisotsu ホイそつ |
(net-sl) (derogatory term) (joc) (See ヨウ卒・2) person who attended a nursery school as a child (as opposed to a kindergarten) |
ぼろ布 see styles |
borokire ぼろきれ |
old rag |
マダオ see styles |
madao マダオ |
(abbr. of まるでダメなおっさん) totally hopeless old guy |
まん中 see styles |
mannaka まんなか |
middle; centre; center; mid-way |
もの派 see styles |
monoha ものは |
{art} Mono-ha (art movement); School of Things |
やっぱ see styles |
yappa やっぱ |
(adverb) (1) (abbreviation) (See やっぱり・1) too; also; likewise; either; (adverb) (2) (abbreviation) still; as before; (adverb) (3) (abbreviation) even so; either way; nonetheless; in any event; all the same; (adverb) (4) (abbreviation) as expected |
やり口 see styles |
yarikuchi やりくち |
way (of doing); method |
やり方 see styles |
yarikata やりかた |
manner of doing; way; method; means |
ルーシ see styles |
ruushi / rushi ルーシ |
(hist) Rus' (old name for Russia) |
レトロ see styles |
retoro レトロ |
(noun or adjectival noun) retro; nostalgic; old-fashioned |
わが校 see styles |
wagakou / wagako わがこう |
(exp,n) our school; my school |
一乘家 see styles |
yī shèng jiā yi1 sheng4 jia1 i sheng chia ichijō ke |
The one-vehicle family or sect, especially the Tiantai or Lotus School. |
一乘經 一乘经 see styles |
yī shèng jīng yi1 sheng4 jing1 i sheng ching ichijō kyō |
一乘妙典 (or 一乘妙文) Another name for the Lotus Sūtra, so called because it declares the one way of salvation, the perfect Mahāyāna. |
一佛乘 see styles |
yī fó shèng yi1 fo2 sheng4 i fo sheng ichibutsu jō |
The Mahāyāna, or one-Buddha vehicle, especially the teaching of the Lotus Sūtra.; The one Buddha-yāna. The One Vehicle, i.e. Mahāyāna, which contains the final or complete law of the Buddha and not merely a part, or preliminary stage, as in Hīnayāna. Mahāyānists claim it as the perfect and only way to the shore of parinirvāṇa. It is especially the doctrine of the 法華經 Lotus Sūtra; v. 大乘. |
一分家 see styles |
yī fēn jiā yi1 fen1 jia1 i fen chia ichibun ke |
A school founded by 安慧 Anhui, teaching 心識之一分說 that cognition is subjective. |
一向宗 see styles |
yī xiàng zōng yi1 xiang4 zong1 i hsiang tsung ikkoushuu / ikkoshu いっこうしゅう |
(See 浄土真宗) Ikkō sect (of Buddhism); Jōdo Shinshū; True Pure Land School The 眞宗 Shin or Pure-land Shin Sect founded by Shinran, in Japan, whose chief tenet is unwavering reflection on Amida (by repeating his name). |
一實乘 一实乘 see styles |
yī shí shèng yi1 shi2 sheng4 i shih sheng ichijitsu jō |
The one method, of salvation, the 一實 School. |
一律に see styles |
ichiritsuni いちりつに |
(adverb) in the same way |
一率に see styles |
ichiritsuni いちりつに |
(adverb) in the same way |
一言堂 see styles |
yī yán táng yi1 yan2 tang2 i yen t`ang i yen tang |
(sign hung in a shop) prices fixed – no bargaining (old); having things decided by the will of a single individual; autocratic rule; (contrasted with 群言堂[qun2 yan2 tang2]) |
一說部 一说部 see styles |
yī shuō bù yi1 shuo1 bu4 i shuo pu Issetsu bu |
Ekavyāvahārika 猗柯毘與婆訶利柯 or (Pali) Ekabyohāra 鞞婆訶羅 One of the 20 Hīnayāna schools, a nominalistic school, which considered things as nominal, i.e. names without any underlying reality; also styled 諸法但名宗 that things are but names. |
一貫校 see styles |
ikkankou / ikkanko いっかんこう |
(See 中高一貫校・ちゅうこういっかんこう) combined school (e.g. junior high and high school) |
一路上 see styles |
yī lù shàng yi1 lu4 shang4 i lu shang |
along the way; the whole way; (fig.) the whole time |
一路來 一路来 see styles |
yī lù lái yi1 lu4 lai2 i lu lai |
all the way; all along; since the start |
一限目 see styles |
ichigenme いちげんめ |
first period (e.g. first class in school day) |
一音教 see styles |
yī yīn jiào yi1 yin1 jiao4 i yin chiao ittonkyō |
The one-sound teaching, i.e. the totality of the Buddha's doctrine; a school founded by Kumārajīva and Bodhiruci. |
七つ時 see styles |
nanatsudoki ななつどき |
(archaism) (See 七つ・3) (approx.) four o'clock (am or pm, old time system) |
七事式 see styles |
shichijishiki しちじしき |
(See 千家・せんけ) seven tea ceremony procedures of the Senke school |
三つ子 see styles |
mitsuko みつこ |
(1) three-year-old; (2) triplets; (female given name) Mitsuko |
三つ巴 see styles |
mitsudomoe みつどもえ |
(1) 3 fat-comma shapes arranged to form a circle; (2) (abbreviation) 3-way struggle (wrestling, etc.) |
三乘家 see styles |
sān shèng jiā san1 sheng4 jia1 san sheng chia sanjōke |
The Dharmalakṣaṇa School of the Three Vehicles, led by the 法相宗. |
三人婚 see styles |
sanninkon さんにんこん |
ménage à trois; three-way sexual relationship |
三大部 see styles |
sān dà bù san1 da4 bu4 san ta pu san daibu |
Three authoritative works of the Tiantai School, i.e. the 玄義, 文句, and 止觀, each of ten juan. |
三彌底 三弥底 see styles |
sān mí dǐ san1 mi2 di3 san mi ti Sanmitei |
三蜜 The Sammatīya school.; 彌底; 彌離底; 三密 (or 蜜) 栗底尼迦耶; 三眉底與量弟子 Saṃmatīyanikāya, Saṃmata, or Saṃmitīyas. A Hīnayāna sect the 正量部 correctly commensurate or logical school, very numerous and widely spread during the early centuries of our era. The 三彌底部論 is in the Tripiṭaka. It taught "that a soul exists in the highest and truest sense", "that an arhat can fall from arhatship, that a god can enter the paths of the Order, and that even an unconverted man can get rid of all lust and ill-will" (Eliot, i, 260). It split into the three branches of Kaurukullakāḥ Āvantikāh, and Vātsīputrīyāḥ. |
三斎流 see styles |
sansairyuu / sansairyu さんさいりゅう |
Sansai school of tea ceremony |
三時教 三时教 see styles |
sān shí jiào san1 shi2 jiao4 san shih chiao sanji kyō |
(三時教判) The three periods and characteristics of Buddha's teaching, as defined by the Dharmalakṣana school 法相宗. They are: (1) 有, when he taught the 實有 reality of the skandhas and elements, but denied the common belief in 實我 real personality or a permanent soul; this period is represented by the four 阿含經 āgamas and other Hīnayāna sūtras. (2) 空 Śūnya, when he negatived the idea of 實法 the reality of things and advocated that all was 空 unreal; the period of the 般若經 prajñā sūtras. (3) 中 Madhyama, the mean, that mind or spirit is real, while things are unreal; the period of this school's specific sūtra the 解深密經, also the 法華 and later sūtras. In the two earlier periods he is said to have 方便 adapted his teaching to the development of his hearers; in the third to have delivered his complete and perfect doctrine. Another division by the 空宗 is (1) as above; (2) the early period of the Mahāyāna represented, by the 深密經; (3) the higher Mahāyāna as in the 般若經. v. also 三敎. |
三法輪 三法轮 see styles |
sān fǎ lún san1 fa3 lun2 san fa lun san bōrin |
The three law-wheels, or periods of the Buddha's preaching, according to Paramārtha, to 嘉祥 Jiaxiang of the 三論 school, and to 玄奘 Xuanzang of the 法相 school. |
三界眼 see styles |
sān jiè yǎn san1 jie4 yan3 san chieh yen sangai gen |
The trailokya eye, i.e. Buddha, who sees all the realms and the way of universal escape. |
三祕密 三秘密 see styles |
sān mì mì san1 mi4 mi4 san mi mi san himitsu |
The three mysteries, a term of the esoteric school for 身, 口, and 意; i.e. the symbol; the mystic word or sound; the meditation of the mind. |
三種身 三种身 see styles |
sān zhǒng shēn san1 zhong3 shen1 san chung shen sanshu shin |
The Tiantai School has a definition of 色身 the physical body of the Buddha; 法門身 his psychological body with its vast variety; 實相身 his real body, or dharmakāya. The esoteric sect ascribes a trikāya to each of its honoured ones. v. 三身. |
三竦み see styles |
sansukumi さんすくみ |
three-way deadlock |
三節鞭 三节鞭 see styles |
sān jié biān san1 jie2 bian1 san chieh pien |
three-section staff (old-style weapon) |
三論宗 三论宗 see styles |
sān lùn zōng san1 lun4 zong1 san lun tsung sanronshuu / sanronshu さんろんしゅう |
Three Treatise School (Buddhism) Sanron sect (of Buddhism) The Sanlun, Mādhyamika, or Middle School, founded in India by Nāgārjuna, in China by 嘉祥 Jiaxiang during the reign of 安帝 An Di, Eastern Jin, A.D. 397-419. It flourished up to the latter part of the Tang dynasty. In 625 it was carried to Japan as Sanron. After the death of Jiaxiang, who wrote the 三論玄義, a northern and southern division took place. While the Mādhyamika denied the reality of all phenomenal existence, and defined the noumenal world in negative terms, its aim seems not to have been nihilistic, but the advocacy of a reality beyond human conception and expression, which in our terminology may be termed a spiritual realm. |
三跋羅 三跋罗 see styles |
sān bá luó san1 ba2 luo2 san pa lo sanbara |
saṃvara. 三婆 (or 三嚩) To hinder, ward off, protect from falling into the three inferior transmigrations; a divine being that fills this office worshipped by the Tantra School. The sixth vijñāna, v. 八識. |
三跋諦 三跋谛 see styles |
sān bá dì san1 ba2 di4 san pa ti sanpattai |
prosper on the way |
三輪教 三轮教 see styles |
sān lún jiào san1 lun2 jiao4 san lun chiao sanrin kyō |
The three periods of the Buddha's teaching as defined by Paramārtha: (a) 轉法輪 the first rolling onwards of the Law-wheel, the first seven years' teaching of Hīnayāna, i.e. the 四諦 four axioms and 空 unreality; (b) 照法輪 illuminating or explaining the law-wheel, the thirty years' teaching of the 般若 prajñā or wisdom sūtras, illuminating 空 and by 空 illuminating 有 reality; (c) 持法輪 maintaining the law-wheel, i.e. the remaining years of teaching of the deeper truths of 空有 both unreality and reality. Also the three-fold group of the Lotus School: (a) 根本法輪 radical, or fundamental, as found in the 華嚴經 sūtra; (b) 枝末法輪 branch and leaf, i.e. all other teaching; until (c) 攝末歸本法輪 branches and leaves are reunited with the root in the Lotus Sutra, 法華經. |
三部経 see styles |
sanbukyou / sanbukyo さんぶきょう |
three main sutras (of a school of Buddhism) |
三階法 三阶法 see styles |
sān jiē fǎ san1 jie1 fa3 san chieh fa sankai hō |
(三階佛法) The Three Stages School founded by the monk信行Xinxing in the Sui dynasty; it was proscribed in A.D. 600 and again finally in A.D. 725; also styled 三階院; 三階敎. |
三鳥派 see styles |
sanchouha / sanchoha さんちょうは |
(hist) (See 富士派) Sanchō Sect (of the Fuji School of Nichiren Buddhism; 1661-1673) |
上がる see styles |
agaru あがる |
(v5r,vi) (1) to rise; to go up; to come up; to ascend; to be raised; (2) to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to go in; (3) to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; (4) to get out (of water); to come ashore; (5) to increase; (6) to improve; to make progress; (7) to be promoted; to advance; (8) to be made (of profit, etc.); (9) to occur (esp. of a favourable result); (10) to be adequate (to cover expenses, etc.); (11) to be finished; to be done; to be over; (12) (of rain) to stop; to lift; (13) to stop (working properly); to cut out; to give out; to die; (14) to win (in a card game, etc.); (15) to be spoken loudly; (16) to get stage fright; (17) to be offered (to the gods, etc.); (18) (humble language) to go; to visit; (19) (honorific or respectful language) to eat; to drink; (20) to be listed (as a candidate); (21) to serve (in one's master's home); (22) to go north; (suf,v5r) (23) indicates completion |
上げる see styles |
ageru あげる |
(transitive verb) (1) to raise; to elevate; (2) to do up (one's hair); (3) to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to surface (a submarine, etc.); (4) to land (a boat); (5) to show someone (into a room); (6) to send someone (away); (7) to enrol (one's child in school); to enroll; (8) to increase (price, quality, status, etc.); to develop (talent, skill); to improve; (9) to make (a loud sound); to raise (one's voice); (10) to earn (something desirable); (11) to praise; (12) to give (an example, etc.); to cite; (13) to summon up (all of one's energy, etc.); (14) (polite language) to give; (15) to offer up (incense, a prayer, etc.) to the gods (or Buddha, etc.); (16) to bear (a child); (17) to conduct (a ceremony, esp. a wedding); (v1,vi) (18) (of the tide) to come in; (v1,vi,vt) (19) to vomit; (aux-v,v1) (20) (kana only) (polite language) to do for (the sake of someone else); (21) to complete ...; (22) (humble language) to humbly do ... |
上乘禪 上乘禅 see styles |
shàng shèng chán shang4 sheng4 chan2 shang sheng ch`an shang sheng chan jōjō zen |
The Mahāyāna Ch'an (Zen) School, which considers that it alone attains the highest realization of Mahāyāna truth. Hīnayāna philosophy is said only to realize the unreality of the ego and not the unreality of all things. The Mahāyāna realizes the unreality of the ego and of all things. But the Ch'an school is pure idealism, all being mind. This mind is Buddha, and is the universal fundamental mind. |
上代語 see styles |
joudaigo / jodaigo じょうだいご |
(1) ancient language; ancient word; (2) {ling} Old Japanese; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period |
上古音 see styles |
shoukoon; joukoon / shokoon; jokoon しょうこおん; じょうこおん |
{ling} Old Chinese phonology |
上年紀 上年纪 see styles |
shàng nián jì shang4 nian2 ji4 shang nien chi |
(of a person) to get old |
上座部 see styles |
shàng zuò bù shang4 zuo4 bu4 shang tso pu jouzabu / jozabu じょうざぶ |
Theravada school of Buddhism Sthaviravada (early Buddhist movement) 他毘梨典部; 他鞞羅部 Sthavirāḥ; Sthaviranikāya; or Āryasthāvirāḥ. The school of the presiding elder, or elders. The two earliest sections of Buddhism were this (which developed into the Mahāsthavirāḥ) and the Mahāsānghikāḥ or 大衆部. At first they were not considered to be different schools, the 上座部 merely representing the intimate and older disciples of Śākyamuni and the 大衆 being the rest. It is said that a century later under Mahādeva 大天 a difference of opinion arose on certain doctrines. Three divisions are named as resulting, viz. Mahāvihāravāsinaḥ, Jetavanīyāḥ, and Abhayagiri-vāsinaḥ. These were in Ceylon. In course of time the eighteen Hīnayāna sects were developed. From the time of Aśoka four principal schools are counted as prevailing: Mahāsāṅghika, Sthavira, Mūlasarvāstivda, and Saṁmitīya. The following is a list of the eleven sects reckoned as of the 上座部: 說一切有部; 雪山; 犢子; 法上; 賢冑; 正量; 密林山; 化地; 法藏; 飮光; and 經量部. The Sthaviravādin is reputed as nearest to early Buddhism in its tenets, though it is said to have changed the basis of Buddhism from an agnostic system to a realistic philosophy. |
上輩觀 上辈观 see styles |
shàng bèi guān shang4 bei4 guan1 shang pei kuan jōhai kan |
The fourteenth of the sixteen contemplations of the Amitābha school, with reference to those who seek the Pure Land with sincere, profound, and altruistic hearts. |
下臺階 下台阶 see styles |
xià tái jiē xia4 tai2 jie1 hsia t`ai chieh hsia tai chieh |
to extricate oneself; way out |
不但空 see styles |
bù dàn kōng bu4 dan4 kong1 pu tan k`ung pu tan kung fu tankū |
Not only the void '; or, non-void; śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas see only the 'void', bodhisattvas see also the non-void, hence 不但空 is the 中道空 the 'void' of the 'mean'. It is a term of the 通敎 Intermediate school. |
不分別 不分别 see styles |
bù fēn bié bu4 fen1 bie2 pu fen pieh fu funbetsu |
The indivisible, or middle way 中道. |
不可棄 不可弃 see styles |
bù kě qì bu4 ke3 qi4 pu k`o ch`i pu ko chi Fukaki |
Not to be cast away— said to be the name of the founder of the Mahīśāsakah, or 化地 school, cast into a well at birth by his mother, saved by his father, at first brahman, afterwards a Buddhist; v. 文殊問經, but probably apocryphal. |
不壞道 不坏道 see styles |
bù huài dào bu4 huai4 dao4 pu huai tao fuedō |
indestructible Way |
不定性 see styles |
bù dìng xìng bu4 ding4 xing4 pu ting hsing fujō shō |
(不定種性) Of indeterminate nature. The 法相宗 Dharmalakṣana school divides all beings into five classes according to their potentialities. This is one of the divisions and contains four combinations: (1) Bodhisattva-cum-śrāvaka, with uncertain result depending on the more dominant of the two; (2) bodhisattva-cum-pratyekabuddha; (3) śrāvaka-cum-pratyekabuddha; (4) the characteristcs of all three vehicles intermingled with uncertain results; the third cannot attain Buddhahood, the rest may. |
不徹底 see styles |
futettei / futette ふてってい |
(noun or adjectival noun) inconsistent; illogical; unconvincing; not thorough; indefinite; half-way |
不昧流 see styles |
fumairyuu / fumairyu ふまいりゅう |
Fumai school of tea ceremony |
不登校 see styles |
futoukou / futoko ふとうこう |
(See 登校拒否) truancy; school non-attendance |
両方向 see styles |
ryouhoukou / ryohoko りょうほうこう |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) two directions; both directions; two-way; bidirectional |
中二病 see styles |
zhōng èr bìng zhong1 er4 bing4 chung erh ping chuunibyou / chunibyo ちゅうにびょう |
(neologism) strange behavior characteristic of a teenager going through puberty (loanword from Japanese "chūnibyō") (slang) (joc) behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; 2nd year of junior high sickness |
中國通 中国通 see styles |
zhōng guó tōng zhong1 guo2 tong1 chung kuo t`ung chung kuo tung |
China watcher; an expert on China; an old China hand See: 中国通 |
中学年 see styles |
chuugakunen / chugakunen ちゅうがくねん |
(See 低学年,高学年) middle grades of primary school (third and fourth grades) |
中学校 see styles |
chuugakkou / chugakko ちゅうがっこう |
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school |
中学生 see styles |
chuugakusei / chugakuse ちゅうがくせい |
junior high school student; middle school pupil |
中學生 中学生 see styles |
zhōng xué shēng zhong1 xue2 sheng1 chung hsüeh sheng |
middle-school student; high school student See: 中学生 |
中小學 中小学 see styles |
zhōng xiǎo xué zhong1 xiao3 xue2 chung hsiao hsüeh |
middle and elementary school |
中等部 see styles |
chuutoubu / chutobu ちゅうとうぶ |
(See 高等部) middle school (esp. the middle school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); junior high school |
中締め see styles |
nakajime なかじめ |
(1) closing mid-way; (2) taking a break mid-way through an event, sometimes with ceremonial hand-clapping |
中老年 see styles |
zhōng lǎo nián zhong1 lao3 nian2 chung lao nien |
middle and old age |
中道宗 see styles |
zhōng dào zōng zhong1 dao4 zong1 chung tao tsung Chūdō Shū |
The third period of the Buddha's teaching, according to the 法相宗, giving the via media between the two extremes, the absolute as not confined to the phenomenal or the noumenal; also called 中道教. |
中道教 see styles |
zhōng dào jiào zhong1 dao4 jiao4 chung tao chiao chūdō kyō |
teaching of the middle way |
中道義 中道义 see styles |
zhōng dào yì zhong1 dao4 yi4 chung tao i chūdō gi |
meaning of middle way |
中道觀 中道观 see styles |
zhōng dào guān zhong1 dao4 guan1 chung tao kuan chūdō kan |
One of the Tiantai 三觀 three meditations, i. e. on the doctrine of the Mean to get rid of the illusion of phenomena. |
中間駅 see styles |
nakamaeki なかまえき |
way station; (st) Nakama Station |
中高年 see styles |
chuukounen / chukonen ちゅうこうねん |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) middle and old age |
中高生 see styles |
chuukousei / chukose ちゅうこうせい |
(abbreviation) middle and high-school students |
丸頭巾 see styles |
maruzukin まるずきん |
(See 大黒頭巾) bouffant cloth cap (traditionally worn by old people and monks) |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
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Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House
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