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tidying up; finishing

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being full; (counting) completed years (e.g. when calculating age); full (years, months, etc.); Manchuria

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to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully

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idea; notion; sense (e.g. of duty); resignation; preparedness; observation and contemplation

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crime; sin; penalty; sentence; fault; responsibility

4

tiled roof

1

cloudiness; cloudy weather; fog (on a mirror, glasses, etc.); cloud (e.g. in marble); gloom; dejection

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to knit; to plait; to braid; to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit

3

samue; monk's working clothes

1

rickshaw; jinrikisha

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culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)

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time; season; period; phase; stage

2

civilization and enlightenment; Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era (Westernisation)

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Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)

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

1

Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)

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don't worry; no worries; never mind

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invisible person (in science fiction, etc.)

2

width of a river

1

quantity or volume of water

1

to differ; to vary; to disagree

2

along the river; riverside

1

to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death

1

bank; weir; embankment; levee

1

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

1

two days before; day before yesterday

1

a throw; a fall

1

form; shape; state; condition; letter; correspondence

1

10th month of the lunisolar calendar (traditional first month of winter, approx. November); late autumn; late fall

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cavity; hollow; void; hollow (voice, smile, etc.); blank (eyes, look, etc.); vacant (expression, stare, etc.)

1

to take notice (of); to pay attention (to)

1

with a "plop" (of tears, drop of water, etc.)

1

astonishing; amazing; surprising; wonderful

1

to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except

1

pain; agony; bitterness

1

retreat; falling back; recession; waning; backspace (key)

1

to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)

1

west

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to resound; to echo; to reverberate

1

normalcy; normality; normal

1

black smoke

1

thunderous; rumbling; thunderously; rumblingly

1

fire fighting

2

crossing swords; competing against; contending with; fighting against

1

overwhelming

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to freeze (from fear); to be unable to (too frightened to) run

1

to tear up; to tear off; to rip up; to separate (e.g. a couple); to disrupt (a relationship)

1

cawing (of a crow)

2

to engage in; to participate in; to take part in; to be involved in

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artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)

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