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soba restaurant

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homecoming; return to one's home

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to complement

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to charm; to attract; to fascinate; to entice

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pin (e.g. hairpin, bowling pin, golf pin, etc.); one (on dice, in cards, etc.); beginning; best; kickback

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top of the head; vertex; parietal

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dango; dumpling (usu. sweet); ball-shaped object; something round; lump; group

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older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am; older girl

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sense of smell; olfaction

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antenna; thing or method used to collect information or opinions

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obvious; undeniable

2

queen; female champion

2

to set off to advantage; to bring into prominence; to support; to favor; to rouse (spirits); to march (a prisoner) off

2

whistling (wind); blowing; fluttering (in the wind); waving; staggering; tottering

2

one's chance; the right time; target; objective

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two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper); stanza; verse; tribe (in taxonomy); forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)

3

satisfactory; decent

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explanation (e.g. for one's actions); excuse; justification; defense; defence

3

(sense of) rivalry; competitiveness

3

tremendous; immense

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reason; cause; circumstances

3

to antagonize; to provoke antipathy

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the nail that sticks out gets hammered down; people that stick out too much get punished; tall trees catch much wind; people that excel at something become disliked

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without exaggeration; truthful; factual

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to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest)

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after lunch

2

lost article; something forgotten

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sudden; abrupt; unexpected

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any beech tree of genus Castanopsis

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sunlight filtering through trees

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tieless; not wearing a tie; open-necked

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simple; plain

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distant view; looking from a distance; good long distance vision; farsightedness

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figure; body shape; build; somatotype; biotype; habitus

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incomprehensible; mysterious; inexplicable; inscrutable; enigmatic; baffling

3

weather; look of the sky; situation; turn of affairs; signs

3

feel when biting; manner of enunciation

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dissatisfied-looking; looking discontented

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to cause someone to worry

3

rest; break; recreation; recuperation; convalescence

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to prosper; to flourish

3

famous; notorious; noted

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coming and going; keeping in touch; visiting each other; street traffic; highway

2

ruin; destruction; devastation; waste; decay

1

hills and fields; hill and dale

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Mt. Hiei (in Kyoto)

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to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with

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wars; disturbances

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Edo period (1603-1868)

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Tokugawa shogunate (i.e. the Edo shogunate, 1603-1867)

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