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harvest festival

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ripening (of a crop); crop; harvest

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

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regular; usual; favourite; favorite; preferred; accustomed

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selfish; asking too much

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restaurant that only serves set meals

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popular; folksy; plebeian; ordinary; unpretentious

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table; desk; counter for tables, desks, etc.; offering table before an altar (sometimes used in tea ceremony); tabletop incense burner

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headgear (esp. one made of cloth); hood; kerchief; tokin (headgear worn by yamabushi)

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middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

2

natto (fermented soybeans)

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salmon (Salmonidae spp.); chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta); dog salmon

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to stir; to churn; to rummage around; to throw into confusion; to throw into chaos

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stickiness; viscosity; tenacity; persistence

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legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; female genitalia (esp. the clitoris); kidney; small

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to turn (one's face) away; to avert (one's eyes)

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fermentation; zymosis

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Kansai (region comprising Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and surrounding prefectures); Kansai (western half of Japan; during the feudal era)

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to treat shabbily; to be careless about; to handle roughly; to waste; to use wastefully; to spend recklessly

1

crude; rough; plain; careless; disrespectful; without proper care

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to hold one's breath

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mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling

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with a gulp

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kusaya; brined, sun-dried fish (usu. mackerel scad) which has a very pungent smell

2

eating everything (on one's plate, etc.)

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tricolor dango eaten during cherry blossom viewing (esp. pink, white, and green)

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Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)

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sweet mochi cake

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Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps); mugwort (any plant of genus Artemisia); wormwood; sagebrush

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seeming sad

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dressed in a kimono

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Chile

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wind chime; wind bell

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tone color; tone colour; tone quality; timbre

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reward; honorarium; remuneration

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to brave a danger; to take a risk

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light blue; pale blue

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bluebird of happiness

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thank you; thanks a lot

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cased; boxed; precious; cherished; girl who has been sheltered from the world; one's special talent

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street performance

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(piece of) writing; document; (act of) writing

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to smell; to smell of; to have a smell

1

important point; emphasis; iteration mark; colon (punctuation)

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wicker clothes hamper

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to alternate; to take turns

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prior investment; upfront investment

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dressing (esp. in kimono); fitting; helping someone get dressed; outer garment (in kabuki)

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to make an enemy (of); to turn (someone) into an enemy; to antagonize

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to take (a photograph); to record (audio or video); to film; to shoot

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