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Examples
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Others hunted clothing: “Almost brand-new, fourteen dollars fuda snowsuit anu kid loses u jacket.”
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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At the dismount notice (_geba-fuda_) Okumura Shu [u] zen, accompanied by two pages, donned _zo [u] ri_ (sandals) and betook himself to the palace.
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The doctrine of "Don," suddenness of salvation, the many external and entirely formal rites, short pilgrimages to famous shrines, the visiting of some neighboring temple having miniature models of all the other efficacious shrines throughout the land, the wearing of charms, the buying of "o fuda," and even the single utterance of certain magic prayers, were taught to be quite enough for the salvation of the common man from the worst of sins.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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Night after night O-Yone entered into his dwelling, and roused him from his sleep, and asked him to remove the o-fuda placed over one very small window at the back of his master's house.
In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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You know that you can get a hundred ryo to have the o-fuda taken off ....
In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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A ghost that wants to have the _o-fuda_ pulled off a door is called a _Fuda-hégashi_.
The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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All are holy charms, -- _o-fuda_: they protect the houses; and no goblin or ghost can enter by night into a dwelling so protected, unless the
The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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The reason that the o-fuda has not been taken away is that my wife and I are able to live only by the help of
In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Such texts are called _o-fuda_ (august scripts): they are written in
The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Vengeful ghosts cannot themselves remove an _o-fuda_; but they will endeavor by threats or promises or bribes to make some person remove it for them.
The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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