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buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles

16

beginning of spring

1

to view (cherry) blossoms; to look at flowers

1

sunset; sundown; end; close; year-end; end of the year

2

to air; to dry; to drain (off); to drink up; to deprive of a role, job, etc.

1

a (short) time; a while; one time (in the past); a period; (arch.) two-hour period

1

order; request

2

resting one's chin in one's hands; brace (in construction); angle brace

2

diagonal

4

husband; groom; (one's) son-in-law

1

nursing; nurse; attending; attendant; entertainer

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branch of a school

3

miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.); cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.); (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors

6

Kousuke

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to imitate; to copy; to enter someone as a candidate; to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back); to compare; to liken

4

care; looking after; repair; (police) raid; crackdown

3

gambling

4

tangle; entanglement; snarl; complication; difficulties; trouble

2

dispute; conflict; trouble; strife

3

longed-for; anxiously awaited

1

Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i

1

to be sullen; to be offended; to be huffy; to be stuffy; to be stifling; to be muggy

1

to fail; to screw up; to stuff up

1

there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)

1

anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever

1

rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)

2

Kumagorou

5

reply; answer

3

to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)

1

wolf (Canis lupus); wolf in sheep's clothing; womanizer

2

remnant; residue; remaining; left-over

1

visibly; openly; publicly

1

viewing as ...; seeing as ...; treating as ...; regarding as ...

3

cancellation; abandonment

1

particulars; details; specified items

1

abusive language; violent language; wild words

1

Blowin' in the wind

1

to act as one pleases; to throw one's weight around; to have everything one's own way

1

to pick out (with the fingers); to pull out; to throw out (e.g. of a bar); to drag out; to chuck out

1

impudent; brazen; shameless; bold

1

urine; piss; pee; breaking a contract

3

hawk; falcon

1

dried boiled rice

1

negotiations; bargaining; dialogue; duet

1

to fetch; to go and get

2

to settle (a problem)

1

funny; amusing

1

bellyband; maternity belt; (saddle) girth

1

I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal

2

to creep; to crawl

1