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newly appointed; inaugural

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needs; demands; requests

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to be accompanied by; to be attended by; to take along (someone); to conquer; to subjugate; to subdue

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comics; comic book

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timid; faint of heart

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incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person

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pumps; court shoe

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for use of customers or guests

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Macbeth

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Othello (board game)

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hamlet

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rear

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Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times

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to form a complete whole; to be joined together

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fireplace; hearth; stove

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to delight; to please; to make (someone) happy; to give pleasure (to)

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Rubus mesogaeus (species of blackberry)

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to gulp down (alcohol, poison, etc.); to quaff; to down

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goes without saying; needless to say; obvious

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The Tempest (play by Shakespeare, sonata by Beethoven)

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collection of short Heian-period tales in the form of poems

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ceremony; matter; affair; with regard to; as for

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six immortals of poetry; six notable Japanese poets whose poems were included in the anthology Kokin Wakashū

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the Imperial Family

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good-looking; fair; beautiful

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elegance; taste; refinement

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ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml

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well curb of a round well

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pursuer; pursuing party; posse

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interview (on television, in a newspaper, etc.)

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fan letter; fan mail

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circle and cross; right and wrong (answers); true-false

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to be renewed; to change; to be improved; to be reformed; to stand on ceremony; to be formal

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Jibril

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Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures); Ise (city)

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smoky

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half asleep and half awake; trance; dream and reality

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to lose one's composure

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male coming-of-age-ceremony; shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)

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dark chocolate

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dynamic

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frank; candid; frankfurter; frank

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printer

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output (electrical, signal, etc.)

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monthly magazine

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becoming stereotyped; becoming tedious; becoming repetitive; becoming routine; getting stuck in a rut; humdrum

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Kintarō candy; Kintarō-ame; hard stick-shaped candy made so that the face of folk hero Kintarō appears when it is sliced; something (or someone) lacking originality; something lacking in variety; cookie-cutter design (look, approach, etc.)

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loud (of a voice)

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every (usu. with events, e.g. every weekend); each

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editor-in-chief

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