jpdb beta

hard to imagine

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middle of summer; height of summer; midsummer

1

long sleeves

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approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; age (when ...); for years (past)

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second year of junior high school; second-year junior high school student; behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; (lit.) 2nd year of junior high sickness

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same level; same extent

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build; physique; frame; constitution

2

(physical) growth; development

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successively; one after another

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parents; both parents

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trade; business; commerce; occupation; calling; profession

4

with a pop; with a squish; grainy; crunchy; bubble wrap; small grains

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to make a gesture or say something during a break in conversation, playing of songs, etc.; to interrupt

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food texture; mouthfeel

4

silent; mute; dumb

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in this way; like this

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to warm up to; to get interested in; to get excited by

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manners; etiquette; propriety; manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making

2

another family; another house

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discipline; training; teaching manners

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salad bowl; chopped salad

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bamboo ladle

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full particulars; all the details; the whole story; everything (about); from beginning to end

1

older sister; lass; young lady

3

cleaner; wiper; eraser; cleaning; wiping; polishing

3

food of the mountains (wild game, mountain vegetables, mushrooms, etc.); fruits of the land

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handmade; homemade

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baked cheesecake

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to act; to take action

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bath; bathing; bathhouse; public bath; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)

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country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competition in which there are several evenly matched participants; hotly contested game (match, market, etc.)

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these days; nowadays; now; at present; recently; lately

1

outstanding; excellent; remarkable

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lived-in feel (e.g. of a room); sense of life; hints of daily life

1

depiction; description; portrayal

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to go into the minutest details

2

Nobunaga

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Asakura

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attack; offence; top (dominant partner of a homosexual relationship); barrage (of); flood (of)

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visit to soldiers at the front (in support); gift given to soldiers on the battefield; visit to someone hard at work (in support); gift given to someone working hard (e.g. food)

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trapped with no way of escape; (lit.) rat in a bag

4

to marry (of a woman); to get married (to); to marry into (a family); (arch.) to have sexual intercourse

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dilemma; predicament

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episode; anecdote; vignette; episode

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without a moment's delay; leaving everything else unattended to

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to run to; to come running; to rush (someplace); to hasten

3

to lie down; to throw oneself down

4

hot spring inn; hot spring hotel; hot spring resort

2

bath towel

3

to bump heads; to bump into each other; to collide head-on; to meet by chance; to encounter; to run into

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