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bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh

4

assembly hall; meeting place; venue; grounds

11

old; former; the old; old things; old times; bygone days

3

Ishikawa prefecture (Hokuriku area)

1

city

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Toyama prefecture (Hokuriku area)

1

Nanto City (Toyama)

1

border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region

1

to rise (of a building, mountain, etc.); to tower; to soar

1

Mt.; Mount; (fig.) Mt.; (fig.) Mount

1

foot (of a mountain or hill); bottom; base

1

to be erected; to be built

1

clock; watch; timepiece

1

dial (on timepiece, meter, etc.); letter board (e.g. on typewriter, writing aide for the disabled, etc.); character board

1

ten o'clock

3

minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)

1

building

1

reservation; appointment; contract; subscription; programming (e.g. a device); setting (e.g. a timer)

1

it is not possible (to, that); there is no such thing as

2

box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building

1

root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature

1

lesson; precept; teachings; moral

1

hiding; concealment

2

means of transportation; transport service

1

regarding as important; attaching importance to; taking a serious view of; putting emphasis on

3

to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on

2

arriving first

1

fuselage; airframe

1

proper; right; reasonable

3

counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun

5

arrival

1

(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy

12

warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown

11

each; (arch.) you (plural)

1

's house; 's home

1

care of; at the household of (when addressing letter, etc.); c-o

2

mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together; both

1

stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others; solo raid on an enemy's camp (for glory)

1

employee; worker

2

leaving (e.g. work at end of day); withdrawal (e.g. from a noble's or superior's presence); exit (e.g. from a market)

1

given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...

2

classical music; classic; classical; classic (work); the classics

2

sofa; couch

4

interception (email); wiretap; bug

1

to suit; to match; to become; to be like

2

feeling guilty; having a guilty conscience; having qualms about

3

to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question

1

to boast; to brag; to recite (a song or poem to oneself); to bark; to roar

1

to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage

3

call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)

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