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Salt-making, the livelihood of Pining Wind and Sudden Rain, is often mentioned in poetry, and in fact the play contains a tsukushi, or 'inventory,' of places associated with salt-making.
Matsukaze 1978
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The following passage is a tsukushi, or "exhaustive enumeration," of place-names associated with the sea, including allusions and plays on words.
Matsukaze 1970
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On a given weekend, you may see women and a few men carefully poring over the warming earth, foraging for fuki no to (coltsfoot), warabi (ferns) and my favorite, tsukushi (horsetail shoot).
NPR Topics: News 2011
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