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reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre

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topography

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along (wall, coast, river, etc.); alongside; following

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white

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in Kyoto or the capital

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to blink (one's eyes); to wink; to bat; to twinkle (e.g. stars); to flicker; to waver

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view; outlook; prospect

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field of vision; view; one's outlook (e.g. on life); one's horizons

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to turn one's face; to turn around; to look over one's shoulder

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to get dark; to grow dark; to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought)

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total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects

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in the city

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mountain road; mountain trail

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Ishikawa Jouzan

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to have an air of sublimity; to appear majestic

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fence around a shrine

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big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important

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omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing

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best; ideal; perfect

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scaffold; scaffolding; foothold; footing; foothold (e.g. in business); foundation

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rear; back; reverse

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important point (e.g. on a route); important role (responsibility, etc.); opposition

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suddenly; all of a sudden

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troop headquarters; stronghold; inn designated for use by a daimyo (Edo period)

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going straight on; going straight ahead

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evening; early night hours

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to look around; to survey

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hillside; mountainside

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answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising

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terrain; geographical features; topography

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sketch

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folding book; counter for units of paper and nori (48 pages of Mino paper; 20 pages of hanshi; 10 sheets of nori); counter for folding books, folding screens, shields, etc.; counter for pairs (of curtains); counter for tatami mats

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traffic; coming and going; highway

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pencil

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lick; bottom card of the draw pile; (arch.) tasting (a nobleman's) medicine to see if it contains poison; (arch.) medicine taster

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to write a novel

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disloyalty; unfaithfulness

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roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly

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returning to (one's home in) Tokyo; returning to (one's home in) the capital

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potter

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attendance (at school); going to school

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to mail a letter

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ignorance; (lack of) enlightenment or civilization (civilisation); unenlightened; uncivilized; uncivilised

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the person heretofore mentioned; that person

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topographic map; elevation map

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two sheets (pieces) (of paper)

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on the desk; theoretical; academic; armchair (e.g. plan)

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gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail

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surmising; speculation

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half day

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