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clear; obvious; evident; bright; light

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capacity; volume

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Fukuoka (city, prefecture)

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straight line; beeline

3

Norimune

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national treasure

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to force someone to clamp with their teeth; to force into someone's mouth (e.g. a gag); to wedge into a space; to inflict (a blow); to deal (a hit); to pull (a joke)

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length of a blade (sword, knife, etc.); walking on the edge of a sword

2

metre; meter; meter; gauge

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at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money

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to warp; to bend backwards; to throw the head (or shoulders) back; to throw out the chest

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long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)

3

scabbard; sheath; cap (on pen, brush, etc.); case; margin (between two prices); spread

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guard on sword, polearms, etc.; flange; brim; visor (e.g. of a hat)

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hilt (of a sword); haft (of a dagger); handle; handgrip

1

shellfish removed from the shell; shucked shellfish

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lightly; easily; carelessly

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physical strength; brute strength; arm strength

1

core; tang (of a sword, etc.); middle of a nest of boxes

1

painful; being sorry; feeling sorry

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simultaneous; all at once

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communication line

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frame rate

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metallic sound; metallic clank

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to reverberate; to resound; to echo; to have one's fame spread; to be renowned

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to stick into; to pierce; to run into

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to mess around; to get carried away; to press one's luck

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to get someone to say; to make someone say; to let someone say; to let someone speak out; to make a sound

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to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to flutter about; to revolve

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to split finely; to splinter; to get frayed; to become irritable; to feel on edge

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furious; infuriated

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to prick; to stab; to poke; to prod; to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with

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porcupine (any mammal of suborder Hystricomorpha)

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thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words

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mere; simple; sheer

1

noise

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dainty; delicate; slender; fragile (e.g. furniture); delicate; frail

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to flow into; to pour into; to stream into

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blade; sword; forged blade; wavy pattern on forged blades; sharpness; unhulled rice

4

edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)

2

clove (Syzygium aromaticum)

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disorder; disturbance; unrest

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temper pattern of a sword blade

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distinctly (standing out); clearly; in sharp relief; boldly

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to rise to the surface; to come to the front; to emerge (e.g. from obscurity); to stand out (e.g. against a dark background)

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towering; astonishingly high

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pleated skirt

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handsome; shapely; clean-cut (features)

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one hundred years ago; a hundred year previously

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molding; moulding; shaping; modelling (i.e. plastic arts); modeling

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