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improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress; communication of opinions of the general populace to those of high rank

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suitable; appropriate; befitting; conjoining; association; samprayukta

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to practice; to practise; to train; to drill; to become practiced; to become practised

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to dream (i.e. while asleep); to have a dream; to dream (of the future); to have a fleeting experience

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amount of experience; experience level; experience point; exp; XP

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for many days; for several days

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the whole year; all the year

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without looking aside; looking neither right nor left; wholeheartedly; single-mindedly

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likely to do; liable to do; (quite) capable of doing; may (well) do; might do; could do

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dilapidated house; deserted house

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serious; earnest; honest; real; legit

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link; linking; link; hyperlink; linking (of object files); linkage

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painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate

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to crosshatch

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recollection; calling to mind

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-job; stimulating the penis with a body part

4

self-willed; (doing or saying things) to suit one's own convenience; oblivious to the convenience of others

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complex

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onstage appearance of the jōruri musicians and chanters (in kabuki)

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warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown

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kinako; roasted soybean flour; roasted soy flour

8

lifelike life-sized doll (made in the late Edo and Meiji periods); doll-like beauty

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not bad; not half bad; pretty good

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pride; self-confidence; self-esteem; self-conceit

1

facing west

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sunrise

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through; throughout; through (the good offices of); by way of

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to take all things together; to include everything; to take account of everything

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criticism; judgement; judgment; comment

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ho-ho

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under the sod; one's grave; the other world

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consequently; as a result

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quality

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to fail; to slip up; to make a botch job (of)

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birthday party

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to be able to see

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matchmaker; go-between; intermediary; middleman

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to hold (a ceremony); to perform

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Bible; the Scriptures; Holy Writ

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bride

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you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; (lit.) a shop-boy near the temple gate (will recite sutras untaught)

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back gate

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savings box; moneybox; piggy bank

5

oval shape; egg shape

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coin; token; slug

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insertion slot (e.g. coins, tickets); input port

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(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game

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woman

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twelve-layered ceremonial kimono (worn by a court lady); ajuga (Ajuga nipponensis); bugle

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peace; tranquility; tranquillity; Heian period (794-1185)

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