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tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one); tattooing

1

please refrain (from)

1

bathing etiquette (i.e. in a public bath)

1

to make a list; to enumerate

1

to be careful; to be discreet; to do in moderation; to refrain (from overdoing); to be purified; to be chaste

1

in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se

2

expected value; expectation value; expectation

1

raising (the standard)

2

to decrease; to be reduced; to reduce; to lessen; to subtract; to deduct

1

public (facilities, service, etc.); communal

1

glass door

1

elastic band; rubber band

1

wrist

2

bath; bathing; bathhouse; public bath; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)

3

garden; park

1

hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa); Japanese cypress

8

elevation (of spirits); raising (of morale); uplift; upsurge

1

muddiness; murkiness; impurity; Japanese voiced consonant mark; unrefined sake

1

lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

1

open; spacious; extensive

1

torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); (speak) eloquently; fluently; flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times

1

to feel at ease

1

verdant; fresh and green; bright green; lush

1

wintertime; winter season

1

to become numb; to go to sleep (e.g. a limb); to get an electric shock; to tingle (from an electric shock); to be excited; to be titillated

27

to soak into; to permeate

1

blood vessel; vein

1

fine weather

2

several people

1

turns and twists; ups and downs; meandering; complications; vicissitudes

1

months (period of)

2

to shoot through something (wall, body, etc.); to pierce (e.g. with an arrow or a look)

2

frog

1

as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible

2

of all people

1

immature; childish

1

unripe; green; inexperienced; immature; unskilled

1

high grade

1

very; extremely; exceedingly; top; highest; best

1

scarce; rare

1

first meeting; first interview with

3

tofu skin; dried beancurd; delicacy made from the skin of gently boiled soybean milk

1

to rustle; to sway; to stir; to flutter

1

to steel oneself to; to brace oneself

3

asking; enquiring; searching; looking for

1

to attack the enemy in his unguarded moment

2

fruit

1

use; utility; effect; benefit

1

superstition; superstitious belief

1

down; below; downward

1