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  • Nobody goes to Denpasar, except during a taxi ride from the airport to kuta, nusa dua, seminyak, jimbaran or ubud …

    Matthew Yglesias » The Year in Cities 2008

  • The Lieutenant-General, and First Secretary Yorisada, on his way home from the shrine at Isé 1 where he had gone as Imperial Messenger to offer nusa, 2 stopped at the gate [as he could not enter the house 3] to inquire for Her Majesty.

    Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920

  • Genji sent several parting presents to his wife, and in addition to these some others, consisting of beautiful combs, fans, _nusa_, [60] and the scarf he had carried away, along with the following, privately through Kokimi: --

    Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan Various 1880

  • Slide 3: 80 tahun berlalu sejak para pemu - dalam momentum 80 tahun sump - da indonesia bersumpah untuk se - ah pemuda, jongarsitek! mencoba tia kepada nusa dan bangsa.

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  • a Shinto household, where the ancestors and the higher gods are separately worshipped, the ancestral shrine may be said to correspond with the Roman lararium; while the "god-shelf," with its taima or o-nusa (symbols of those higher gods especially revered by the family), may be compared with the place accorded by Latin custom to the worship of the Penates.

    Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877

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