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Katsufumi

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illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure

3

bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)

4

recommendation; referral; endorsement

1

sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement

4

to decorate; to ornament; to display; to exhibit; to mark (e.g. the day with a victory); to adorn (e.g. the front page)

10

Seiryōin Ryūsui (1974-)

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boss; governor; headman

1

largest class; top category

1

to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice

5

Nisio Isin (1981-; novelist, manga author, and screenplay writer)

3

to live (of animals); to inhabit; to nest

1

(your) daughter; young woman; daughter of a good family

2

engineering

3

chain; series; connection; linkage

5

start; beginning; starting (e.g. a race); departing; starting point

1

beautiful girl

16

(act of) violence; vicious crime; murder

2

new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (of China; 9-23 CE)

43

youth; adolescence; springtime of life

1

masterpiece; masterwork; chef d'oeuvre; (unintentionally) hilarious; absurd (e.g. blunder); outrageous

31

birth (of a person); nativity; creation; formation; one's first birthday

4

Mephisto

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prize; award

2

winning a prize; receiving an award; being awarded

1

I; we

4

to match; to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with

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altogether; entirely

8

fragment; scrap; piece; shred

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fragment; small piece; scrap; shred (e.g. of emotion); trace; bit

3

to a greater or lesser extent (degree); more or less

4

empathy

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lowborn; humble; vulgar; coarse; shabby; poor-looking

2

conformity; alignment; tuning; same tone; same pitch

7

miracle; wonder; marvel

16

commonplace; ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; mundane

1

synchronicity

1

mirror surface; lens surface

6

sense of reality

5

purification; cleanup (e.g. of politics); purge

1

adjustment; coordination; integration; conformity

2

foam; bubble; nothing

2

drop (e.g. of water); drip

1

relation; connection; relevance

11

shadow; shade; shading; nuance; shades of meaning; subtleties

1

law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale

3

one line; one streak; one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one matter (affair, event, case, incident)

2

romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale; (nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; (full-length) novel; romance

1

comical; farcical

1

sorrow; grief; sadness

1