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postcard; memo; note; card

3

sender; consignor; remitter

1

Natsuko

57

picture postcard

2

private property; personal belongings; personal effects

3

one's own convenience; one's way; surroundings; environment; convenience; ease of use; financial circumstances

5

to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think; to lord it over; to have great influence

1

to shut the lid

3

leaving something as it is (after taking it out or turning it on)

1

to look old; to get old

1

Roka Tokutomi (1868.12.8-1927.9.18; novelist)

2

filtration; filtering; percolation

1

stage (of a theatre, concert hall, etc.); stage performance; stage production; setting (of a story); scene; sphere (of activity)

1

extracurricular lesson

3

museum (esp. in memory of a person or event); memorial hall

9

Japan Self-Defense Forces; JSDF; self-defence force; self-defense force

5

(common) cold; influenza; flu; ague; inflammatory respiratory system illness (in general)

2

connection (to a person, place, etc.); relation; affinity

4

author; writer; novelist; artist

4

corner; bend; segment (within a radio or TV program); session; area; department

4

shrine honoring war dead; shrine honouring war dead

1

Sutaruhin Baseball Stadium

1

right beside; close to; nearby

2

to go to see; to visit

1

school trip; field trip; excursion; long walk; excursion (on foot)

1

elementary school student; primary school student; grade school student

1

to handle; to operate (a machine, etc.); to deal with (an issue); to manage; to treat (someone); to deal with (someone)

2

jurisdiction; control

1

army; armed forces; military authorities; team; group

2

Metropolis (of Tokyo); (Tokyo) Metropolitan District; counter for cities and towns; capital

2

development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around (sexually; esp. of a male homosexual); having an active sex life

2

actual existence; real existence; existing in real life

1

person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person

4

blighted love; disappointed love

3

system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series; -type

1

love; romance; tender passion; emotion; affections

1

inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care

1

fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy

1

to turn over; to turn (pages); to leaf through (a book, etc.); to tear off; to strip off; to take off

2

work (e.g. book, film, painting, composition); piece; production; opus

4

as one would expect from ...; given that ... (naturally ...); because ...; for good reason; there is a (good) reason that ...

2

writing; composition; essay; sentence

1

love romance; love story; romance; romance story; romantic fiction

1

positive; assertive; active; proactive; aggressive

1

genre; category; kind

1

literary style; form of (written) language (e.g. classical, modern)

1

to be intimate with; to befriend

1

interest; entertainment; pleasure; implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)

1

to chip (off); to shave off; to sharpen; to dampen (one's enthusiasm, interest, etc.); to reduce

2

fan; enthusiast; lover (of); (electric) fan

1