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to change facial expression or color (due to anger, embarrassment, etc.)

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school friend

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cares; ill feeling; reserve

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people

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(arch.) poor; (arch.) unskillful; (arch.) clumsy; I; me

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person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute

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foot (of a mountain or hill); bottom; base

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tempering (metal); annealing; forging; toughening; disciplining; training

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previously; already; for some time; for quite a while

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to get lost; to become lost; to go astray

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dishonor during one's life; shame experienced during one's life

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to open (e.g. one's robe); to bare (e.g. one's chest); to open up (of clothing); to be exposed; (arch.) to open wide (one's legs, eyes, mouth, etc.); (arch.) to stretch

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bleaching; bleached cotton; doxxing; doxing; public humiliation (as an Edo period punishment)

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exposed; scanty; bare; public; open

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to press down; to hold down; to pin down; to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress

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volume (sound level); volume (books); volume; substantial quantity (e.g. hearty meal); any kind of adjustment knob, not necessarily for sound

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(small) knife; short sword; small sword

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undisputed; entirely; perfect

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seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

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to check; to stop; to keep back

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to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart

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mature age; advanced age; maturity; age when one is old enough to know better

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adult; grown-up

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dragonfly; damselfly

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unexpected; surprising

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to dig your own grave; to bring calamity upon oneself; to put your foot in it

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thereupon; therefore; because of that

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pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas

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beheading (as the ending to a seppuku); assistance; help

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successor

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father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period)

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to plunder; to grab; to snatch

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to end one's life; to commit suicide; to end a life; to kill

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with a snap; (break) cleanly; (reject) sternly; flatly; smartly (e.g. of dressing up well)

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period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness

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to travel on frequently (e.g. a road or path)

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countless; incalculable

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embarrassing; awkward

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butterfly

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natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary

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kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)

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shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof

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measuring worm; inchworm; looper (caterpillar)

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insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness

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minutes (period of)

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centimeter; centimetre; centi-; 10^-2; sentimental

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to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to

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absurd; foolish; stupid; silly; nonsense; ludicrous

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acting; performance

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sweat; perspiration; moisture; condensation; gulp; oops

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