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(short) curtain hung at shop entrance; split curtain used to divide spaces in a house; reputation (of a store); good name; goodwill

2

elegant; graceful

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clamour; clamor; uproar; tumult; furore; furor

14

evaporation; disappearance (of people intentionally concealing their whereabouts); unexplained disappearance

5

water vapour; water vapor; steam

3

first lady

1

stand-up work; work performed standing

1

tucking up the sleeves of a kimono with a tasuki

1

type of stew, usu. fish or vegetables in a mild broth; fish grilled unseasoned and then simmered slowly in soy and mirin broth

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juice; sap; soup; broth

5

strongish; somewhat strong

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(dried) bonito stock

2

seasoning of food

1

measuring cup

1

mixing; compounding; dispensing (e.g. prescription)

5

lavender

4

ticklish; embarrassed; awkward; ill at ease (esp. when receiving public praise)

9

sole of foot

1

long chopsticks (for cooking, serving, etc.)

1

to forget to say; to forget to mention

3

lecture

3

someone working behind-the-scenes; scene shifter; lady consort (to a high personage)

3

modest; reserved

4

lead in (e.g. to a running joke, asking a question); lead up; pretence (pretense); show; pretending (to)

2

heir; successor

2

premature; untimely (e.g. death); early

5

premature

2

causing concern; (lit.) bad for the heart

1

disappointed; dejected; disheartened; indignant; angry

6

like he said; same for me; ditto

2

facilitator; programme director; steering committee (chair)

2

large sketchbook used during TV filming to notify the cast of special stage direction, relay messages, etc.; cue card; crib sheet; cheat sheet

1

to see; to look; to watch; to try to

3

Merry Christmas

2

largish; biggish; a little bit larger

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boots

3

Christmas cake; unmarried woman above the age of 25

1

to speak; to object

3

magnificent; grand; fair; square; grandly; boldly

12

if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say

2

flies that appear in Tohoku and Hokkaido in late autumn or early winter (esp. the woolly apple aphid); flies that appear above fallen snow in the early spring (esp. certain species of small winter stonefly and true crane fly)

1

next; hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence); order; sequence

3

one's own work; making by oneself

1

splish-splash; with a splash

2

butterfly (swimming stroke); G-string; gee-string

2

appearing in one's finest clothes; appearing in one's hour of triumph

1

to pull in; to take for oneself; to tuck up (one's sleeves)

1

(in a) long time; long time (ago); while (ago); long ago; long while (ago); (in a) long while

4

dynamite

2

broken into small fragments; smashed to atoms; fragments and splinters; smithereens

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