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steep mountain; craggy mountain

1

helpless; forlorn; hopeless; unpromising; lonely; discouraging

8

leave-taking; offering one's resignation; farewell visit

5

Matazou

30

return gift; return favour (favor); revenge; change (in a cash transaction)

1

(another's) daughter; young lady (of pampered upbringing); woman who has never known hardship; naive woman

3

growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)

5

please; somehow or other; one way or another

15

fate; chance; relationship; tie

2

enjoyment; pleasure; diversion; anticipation; looking forward to

2

now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again

7

half-term; half-time; half period

1

servant; employee

1

with all due respect ...; I venture to say ...; Excuse me, but ...

5

son (of others); boy; young master; green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

1

(art of) fencing; swordsmanship

2

so and so; such and such

1

conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation

29

husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)

13

employee

2

master and servant; lord and retainer; employer and employee

2

three generations; third generation immigrant; sansei; the third (e.g. Henry III)

2

pardon; forgiveness; forbearance

7

delicious; tasty

13

ancient people

2

oblong brazier

1

to raise one's voice; to shout

2

way; destination; reason

1

to feel; to sense

4

look!; there!; here!; that is

12

1,000; thousand

11

mon; one-thousandth of a kan (unit of currency 1336-1870); 2.4 cm (traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes); letter; character; scripture

1

first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface

2

Heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth

3

you; buddy; pal; monarch; ruler; sovereign

10

the Analects of Confucius (one of the Four Books)

2

beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...

10

damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very

7

to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)

2

reason; cause; circumstances

3

Lord; Highness; (arch.) you

1

ignorant and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate person

1

university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

1

section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.

2

chapter; section; medal; badge; insignia

2

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

2

nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty

9

one's nature; one's destiny; custom; tradition; habit

2

to roll over; to tumble; to roll about (with laughter)

2

to bring; to take (something) along; to fetch; to get

2