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genuine article; real thing; real deal

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post horse

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flying horse; Pegasus

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prison; jail; gaol; firm; solid; strong

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to make oneself known to the public; to become popular; to gain influence

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house of a prince of the blood

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dark; not understood; unknown

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to exceed (by a lot); to (far) surpass; to end; to cease; to stop

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woman; womankind

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abduction; kidnapping; kidnaping

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(meshes of) the law; net of the law; justice

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bowstring; string (of a shamisen, etc.); stringed instrument; chord; hypotenuse

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weeping; lamenting

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temple kitchen; monastery kitchen; quarters of a head priest (and his family)

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locked room; secret room

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to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till

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for that very reason; that is exactly why ...; as expected; just as one thought; sure enough

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isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine

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to do ... incessantly; to do ... hard; (arch.) to happen repeatedly; (arch.) to happen over and over again

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to fall down; to fall over; to turn out; to play out; to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize

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(in gagaku or noh) middle section of a song

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dark red; dark brown; reddish brown

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dull (e.g. a knife); blunt; thickheaded; obtuse; dull (sound, color, etc.); dim (light)

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sitting cross-legged (i.e. Indian style)

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hairy; thickly haired; shaggy

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to have training bouts with one's junior during practice (of a senior wrestler)

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whereabouts; place where one is; position; location

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lack; deficiency; vacancy; absence; non-attendance

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gulpingly; in one gulp

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drinking (sometimes esp. alcohol); drink; drinking party

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one shō (approx. 1.8 litres)

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two (long cylindrical things)

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not having had enough to drink (esp. alcohol)

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to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse; to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted

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widower; divorced man not remarried

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gofer; dogsbody; person who is made to do things or get things for someone else

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Sukhavati (Amitabha's Pure Land); paradise; heaven on earth

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to be greedy; to covet

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under the floor

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straining one's ears

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determined spirit; unyielding spirit; will

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(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently

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hermit's cell; retreat

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to begin (doing); to start (doing)

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to kidnap

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that sort of; like that

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to handle; to manage; to deal with; to rear; to look after

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to cramp up; to tighten; to be insistent; to persist (in one's opinion); to act tough; to bluff; to prop up (e.g. with a post)

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elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself

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to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of

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