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======= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:45:49 +1100 (EST)
(subtype)	amend
(headw1)	鉤括弧
(kana1)	かぎかっこ
(pos)	noun
(english1)	Quotation marks
(reference)	“Japanese A Manual of Reading and Writing” by Hamako Ito Chaplin and Samuel E. Martin, Charles E. Tuttle Company
(comment)	"Square Brackets" though correct, not very intuitive. BTW entry for 斥く; 退く seems to be reduplicated
======= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:56:27 +1100 (EST)
(subtype)	amend
(headw1)	易者
(kana1)	えきしゃ
(pos)	noun
(english1)	divination, fortune-telling using 易 - Book of Changes
(reference)	“Japanese A Manual of Reading and Writing” by Hamako Ito Chaplin and Samuel E. Martin, Charles E. Tuttle Company
(comment)	Chaplin and Martin seem explicit, that this particular type of mantic artist divines with the 易 - Book of Changes. How this might be done I know not, nor do I know whether 易 is a common ideogram for the Book of Changes
(name)	Peter Rout