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  2. Mono no aware - Wikipedia

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    Japanese woodblock print showcasing transience, precarious beauty, and the passage of time, thus "mirroring" mono no aware [1] Mono no aware (物の哀れ), [a] lit. ' the pathos of things ', and also translated as ' an empathy toward things ', or ' a sensitivity to ephemera ', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient ...

  3. Albedo - Wikipedia

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    When seen from a distance, the ocean surface has a low albedo, as do most forests, whereas desert areas have some of the highest albedos among landforms. Most land areas are in an albedo range of 0.1 to 0.4. [14] The average albedo of Earth is about 0.3. [15] This is far higher than for the ocean primarily because of the contribution of clouds.

  4. Ankou - Wikipedia

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    Other versions depict Ankou as the first dead person of the year (though he is always depicted as a male adult), charged with collecting others' souls before he can go to the afterlife. [4] In an alternate origin, he was a cruel prince who met Death during a hunting trip and challenged him to see who could kill a black stag first.

  5. List of Overlord characters - Wikipedia

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    Voiced by: Satoshi Hino (drama CD, anime) (Japanese); Chris Guerrero (English) The leader and sole remaining member of the guild Ainz Ooal Gown. Originally, he was a salaryman named Satoru Suzuki (鈴木悟, Suzuki Satoru) [1] who played the VR online game YGGDRASIL, and was transported to the New World following its shutdown. He decides to ...

  6. List of Japanese anniversaries and memorial days - Wikipedia

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    View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

  7. Glossary of Shinto - Wikipedia

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    ' first accomplishment ') – The first shrine visit of the New Year. Hatsuhinode (初日の出, lit. ' First Rising of the Sun ') – The first sunrise of the New Year. Hatsuyume (初夢, lit. ' first dream ') – The first dream that a person has in the New Year. In Shinto, it is believed that the subjects of the first dreams of the year are ...

  8. Japanese woman, confined by parents for years, found frozen ...

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    TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police said on Wednesday they have arrested a couple whose 33-year-old daughter froze to death in a tiny room where they had confined her for years because they believed ...

  9. Mononoke - Wikipedia

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    "Mononoke Kikyo no Koto" (物怪帰去の事) from the "Totei Bukkairoku" (稲亭物怪録) The first appearance of the term in Japanese literature is seen to be in the Nihon Kōki, and according to a quotation of this book from the Nihon Kiryaku of the same time period, in the article of Uruu 12th month of the year Tenchō 7 (830), there is the statement: "Five monks were invited to recite ...