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small entrance to a tea ceremony room (through which guests enter on their knees)

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to shuffle one's feet; to trample underfoot

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tea utensils; container for powdered green tea (tea ceremony)

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colored; color-tinted

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heat-resistant glass (e.g. Pyrex); refractory glass

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to flicker; to quiver; to waver; to sway

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coming; going

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irregularity; anomaly

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small room

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the edge (overlapping) part of a tatami mat

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faint; indistinct; dim; vague; subtle; delicate

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one's later years; final years (in life)

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Rikyū; Sen no Rikyū (1522-1591)

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narrowness; being cramped; being almost full

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season; weather

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Odaurakusai

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to come back (to); to return to a starting point

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host and guest; the principal and the auxiliary; the principal and the subsidiary; subject and object; subject and object

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unconventional; eccentric; offbeat; aberrant; outlandish; crazy

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tea party

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phrase (verse, line); one haiku-poem

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to be profoundly compatible; to be inseparable; to be so close as to reveal to each other the bottom of one's heart

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(entering into) nirvana; died; silent; tranquil

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vague; obscure; dim; indistinct; ambiguous

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privately; with outsiders barred; en famille

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to read a kanji with a different pronunciation; to load (e.g. data on a computer); to read; to change the language or wording (of a provision, etc.); to apply a different term

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to accept an object and hold it reverently over one's head

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(in the) palm of someone's hand; (under) someone's complete control; (at) someone's mercy

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sentimental; mushy; saccharine; sickly-sweet; sugary

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bitterness; bitter taste

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moisture; damp; richness; warmth; financial leeway; gains

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to form a complete whole; to be joined together

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indescribable; exquisite; inexpressible; indefinable

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fragrance

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temperature

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formal; proper; prescribed; conventional; stereotypical

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to shine; to look slightly upward (of a noh mask; indicating joy, etc.)

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(idle) curiosity; fancifulness; eccentricity; person with unusual tastes; eccentric; oddball

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man of refined tastes; refined person; tea ceremony master; (arch.) lewd man; (arch.) lecher

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master of the tea ceremony; person with eccentric tastes

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on hand; readily available

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candle

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to be worried; to be grieved; to pine for

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tasteful; elegant; refined; charming; attractive

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unskillful; childish; immature; naive; artless; clumsy

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subtracting points; deducting points; points deducted

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united; unified

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meaning; point (e.g. of a statement); gist; goal; intent; object

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please come (and visit us); please come (to our shop)

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host's entrance to a tea-ceremony room

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