いのち
life
Handed down to the kneeling figure and not a parcel. Up on the face it comes to one rope, one knot, and the man on the other end is no cheat いのち about checking it twice: いのち.
The life itself, not 生活 せいかつ which is how you live it. It reads めい in 命令 めいれい, an order.
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