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castanets

2

spectators; onlookers; members of the audience

1

tears (from being deeply moved); tears of gratitude

1

to be choked; to be stifled; to be smothered

1

to drink oneself dead drunk; to drink oneself unconscious

5

(one's) older brother; lad; sonny

9

sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages; counter for cupfuls, bowlfuls, spoonfuls, etc.; counter for boats; counter for octopuses and squid; cup (in sports)

3

panel; wainscoting; wainscotting; plight; fix; bind

1

wild bird

2

dinner; evening meal

1

head chef; master chef

3

variation

2

percussion; tapping; examining by percussion; sounding out (someone's intentions); making an approach (about)

2

great difference; big difference; wide margin

2

one's daily milieu; neighbourhood; neighborhood; zone of life; sphere of life

3

strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern; Naruto (city in Tokushima); Naruto Strait; Naruto wakame

2

gyoza; pot sticker; crescent-shaped pan-fried dumplings stuffed with minced pork and vegetables

1

chain store

1

(Chinese-style) almond jelly; dessert of powdered and jellied apricot kernels with fruit

3

blowing repeatedly (e.g. to cool something down); huffing and puffing; puffing and panting; struggling (with work, studies, etc.); having difficulty

1

food to fill one's stomach; something to satisfy one's hunger

1

several houses

1

catapult; ballista; mangonel; onager; trebuchet

3

buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles

1

udon; thick Japanese wheat noodles

1

hard to do

1

interior; backwoods; hinterland; back regions

1

sacred mountain

1

pile; pool; gathering spot; waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring; liquid runoff from miso preparation; tamari

15

(place of) refuge; escape; exit; way out; shelter; hiding place

1

place to go; place one can go

1

generation; lifetime; age

2

prime field; figurine (used in modeling, dollmaking, etc.)

1

nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); the second (e.g. Edward II); son

1

to persuade; to coax; to solicit; to seduce; to make advances; to make a play

1

coin; hard currency

5

bartering

1

to stop; to abort; to discontinue; to close

2

it's my turn; the ball is in my court; it's up to me

1

to the previous extent; as much as previously; as much as one used to

1

to scoop up; to dip up

1

chance meeting

1

Mongolia

1

to clear up; to become cloudless; to be refreshed

1

lengthening

1

to steel oneself to; to brace oneself

1

lunch box

2

constant attendance; uninterrupted supervision; staying with someone all the time

1

lecture

4

at odd moments

1