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coffin; casket

3

propaganda film

1

band; orchestra

3

ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream

2

to set up; to raise; to nominate; to choose as a representative; to push; to shove

1

bill; handbill; flyer; flier; leaflet; poster

4

admission ticket; entrance ticket; platform ticket; ticket allowing a non-traveller access to a railway station platform

2

to be mixed; to be blended with; to associate with; to mingle with; to join

1

label; sticker

1

structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance

1

Obon; Bon Festival; Buddhist festival for honouring the spirits of one's ancestors, held in mid-August or in some regions, mid-July; tray

1

chance; opportunity; occasion

1

hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little

1

machi-yakko; vigilantes who wore flamboyant clothing and formed gangs to fight against hatamoto-yakko (Edo period)

1

early on; earlier on; from early

1

downheartedly; dejectedly; dispiritedly; despondently

1

side of well

1

pail; bucket

2

confused; flustered; at a loss

1

throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

1

imperial palace; capital; Keijō (Japanese colonial-era name for Seoul)

1

attention; notice; care; caution; advice; warning

1

(common) cold; influenza; flu; ague; inflammatory respiratory system illness (in general)

1

to get complicated; to grow worse; to turn sour

1

school term; semester

1

top hat; high hat; silk hat; topper

7

holly olive (Osmanthus heterophyllus); false holly; holly; spotnape ponyfish (Leiognathus nuchalis)

1

to garnish; to accompany (as a card does a gift); to add to as support; to prop up; to accompany (as an aid, guide, translator, etc.); (arch.) to mimic

2

present; gift

1

to rebuke; to scold; to tell off; to question persistently (in order to criticize or find fault with someone)

1

30th day of the month; 30 days

1

New Year's Eve

1

offering

1

ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pitch (e.g. in baseball); pile (of noodles, etc.)

1

to go (come) inside; to step into; to enter

1

to draw (a line); to demarcate; to mark; to plan

1

gasping for breath; puffing and panting; wheezing

1

Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)

5

flapping sound (of wings); fluttering; hum (of insects); whizz (of a flying arrow); whoosh

1

grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen

3

having poor eyesight

1

kidney inflammation; nephritis

1

any visual disorder caused by a problem within the eye (i.e. glaucoma, amaurosis, etc.)

1

left eye

1

through glass

1

sunlight; rays of the Sun

1

five (long cylindrical things)

1

with all one's might

1

eyesight; vision; visual acuity

1

concentration (on a task); focusing one's attention; concentration (of population, buildings, power, etc.); centralization; within a collection of works

1