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Little Red Riding Hood

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mountain where old people were abandoned (according to legend); position or division in a company to which an old and ineffective person is transferred; women's college

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mermaid; merman

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The Little Match Girl (1845 short story by Hans Christian Andersen)

3

the place for; the time for; the level of

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subject; theme; motif

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reducing the number of mouths one needs to feed (esp. by giving up children for adoption, apprenticeship, etc.)

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pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas

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older brother and younger sister

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story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend

15

one drop (of fluid)

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to dribble; to spill; to suspend; to hang down; to slouch

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tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon dog; sly dog; sly old fox; sly fox

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vine; bine; bow; temple arm; connections; contacts

1

paying back a favour; repayment (of an obligation, kindness, etc.)

1

dream; vision; reverie

2

death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

1

strong; intense; severe

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humanity; human nature

1

depiction; description; portrayal

1

utmost limits; extremity; limit

1

appearing and disappearing; slipping in and out of view

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mirror; looking-glass; barrel head; page added at the beginning of a document mentioning its purpose, date, author, etc.; mirror-shaped mochi

2

why; how; for what reason

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to read aloud; to read to someone

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to get to the main subject; to move on to the main topic; to get down to business

1

nineteen; 19

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century; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)

2

beginning (of a century, etc.)

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publication

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short story; short film; short poem

1

the way in which something came about; origin; structure; organization; the way something is constructed

1

various opinions; various theories; various rumors (rumours)

1

fourteen; 14

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great famine; severe famine

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historical; traditional; historic

1

origin; (arch.) appearance of an auspicious sign that one will receive a divine mandate to becoming emperor; (arch.) birth of an emperor or his ancestors

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handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission

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interpretation; explanation; reading; construction

2

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

3

darkness

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warfare; the maelstrom of war; disorder brought about by war

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incessant; constant; continuous; perpetual; everlasting

1

plague; black plague

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fury; power; menace

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continent; continental Asia (esp. mainland China); continental Europe

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trampling down; overrunning; infringement; violation

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climate

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cold; coldness; chilliness

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change to ...; becoming ...; making into ...; -ization; -ification

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