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credit; money owed on an account; bill; hot noodles in broth; proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price); in the midst of; rest

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gold (Au); golden (color); valuable; of highest value; money; gold coin; Friday

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valley

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lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

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chivalrous thief

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official bulletin board (esp. Edo period); highest bid; highest tender; your letter

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to turn; to revolve; to visit several places; to function well; to pass a certain time

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charm; talisman; tally; sign; mark; fu

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to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house

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dangerous; risky; in danger; in jeopardy; uncertain; unreliable

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circumstances; one's situation or lot in life

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forty; 40

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law; rule; regulation; destiny; fate; karma

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(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely

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66-odd provinces of old Japan; (lit.) 60-odd states

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Eimon

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everyday clothes; ordinary clothes; casual wear; informal dress

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bun (hairstyle); chignon; topknot

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pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure

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Yuigahama

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to drive in (e.g. nail, stake); to hammer in; to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to input (data)

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wave; ups and downs

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in a drenched manner; moistly; affectionately; fondly; slowly; at ease

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to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

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badger game; scheme in which a man and woman trick another man into a compromising situation for blackmail

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young girl; lass; adolescent female

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small bag

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slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark

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tear; rip; breach; spoilage; waste; wastepaper

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rumour (of a love affair); rumor; romance; (arch.) bad reputation

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dragon-head gargoyle; gutter spout

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earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)

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prison; jail; gaol; firm; solid; strong

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again and again

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gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase

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Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE); Vietnam

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to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to swing

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torii; Shinto shrine archway

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Hachiman (God of War); Hachiman shrine; (arch.) certainly

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shrine parishioner

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homelessness; homeless person; being removed from the family register (Edo period)

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title (e.g. Doctor, Professor, Lord); job title; position (in a company); degree; status; rank

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to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)

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Kikunosuke

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growth; breeding; growing up (in, as); upbringing

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having a habit of stealing things; being light-fingered

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pilgrimage to the Ise Grand Shrine without a travel permit or permission from one's parents or relatives (Edo period)

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travel; trip; journey

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western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki); western nations (esp. India or Europe); thirty-three temples in the Kinki area containing statues of Kannon (Avalokitesvara); pilgrimage to the thirty-three temples sacred to Kannon

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beginning and end; from beginning to end; result; outcome; dealing with something successfully

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