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next day

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to attach; to stick together; to place together; to put side-by-side; to make someone get married; to get someone hitched

1

purification ceremony (performed with water); ritual purification; ablutions

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even

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after all

5

to exorcise; to cleanse; to purify

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cannot; must not

1

calendar day; time

1

various

3

computation; calculation

1

auspicious event

2

expectation; anticipation; hope; promising; rising; up-and-coming

2

to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise

2

seeing off; sending off; funeral; escapement

1

to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)

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uncleanness; impurity; disgrace; shame; uncleanliness from contact with death, pregnancy, menstruation, etc.

7

to take away; to carry away

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China; Han dynasty (China, 202 BCE-220 CE); Han (majority Chinese ethnic group); man

2

cause; seed; variety; kind; counter for varieties

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Festival to Plead for Skills (progenitor festival of Tanabata)

2

only; nothing but

9

face; looks; vestiges; trace

3

to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to record (e.g. a fact); to retain

4

bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

2

doll; puppet; figure

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to drain; to pour; to wash away; to distribute (e.g. electricity over wires, music over a PA system, etc.); to circulate; to cruise (e.g. taxi); to float

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to weave up into fabric

1

to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve

8

to be sad; to mourn for; to regret

3

supplement; complement

1

my; our; one's own

7

to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out

12

sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable

1

aquatic; on the water

1

doubt; suspicion; misgivings; scruples

1

Itsuji

1

birth-place; home town

1

one face; one surface; the whole surface; one aspect; one side; (on) the other hand; one broad, flat object

2

to show; to display

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marriage

1

the way there; outbound leg; bound for ...; outbound ticket

2

male god; male deity

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goddess; female deity

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to meet somebody by chance; to happen upon

1

misunderstanding

8

win; victory

1

example; an instance

5

ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival)

3

Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata; Festival of the Weaver

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tray; family; household; O-Bon; Bon Festival; gambler's den

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