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kidney

3

liver; innards; courage; spirit; crux; essential point

3

afterimage; after image

2

singing one's own praises; praising one's own wares

1

to summon courage; to be brave

1

to disappear; to vanish into thin air

2

presumably; conceivably; in my opinion; in my view; I think (that); upon thought

2

to blink (one's eyes) repeatedly

1

half asleep and half awake; trance; dream and reality

1

Lord; Sir; state minister (under the ritsuryō system or Meiji Grand Council system)

2

highest ever; record-high; highest on record

1

limited express train

3

just as (each) one likes; as (each) one pleases; as (each) one prefers; (each) in one's own way

1

(picture) frame; architrave (of a door, window, etc.)

2

history; career

1

moving about in confusion; going every which way; going this way and that

1

immorality; injustice; adultery; illicit relationship; murdering one's teacher or a government official (one of the eight unpardonable crimes)

1

tired feeling; feeling of exhaustion; sense of fatigue; fatigability

2

comedy

3

1,000,000; one million; million; many

2

scheme; plot; artifice; stratagem; trick

2

street corner

3

traditional short winter coat resembling a haori without gussets; livery coat; half the sky; mid-air; middle of the sky

1

to inlay; to set; to stud (e.g. star-studded sky); to enchase (something) with; to mount (gems)

13

potted plant; potting

3

old newspapers

2

wrapping paper

18

postcard

1

address book; list of addresses; mailing list

1

(hospital) ward

1

seeing through (e.g. someone's lies); reading (e.g. thoughts); penetrating; detecting

1

curtain raising; starting (e.g. play, concert)

1

heart; hearts (suit)

1

walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)

8

ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself); going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly

1

fishing net

1

to skin (one's knee); to graze; to scratch

1

to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)

8

fool; dunce; idiot

1

innocent; sensitive; uncomplicated; unpretentious; straightforward

1

to mind; to care; to worry

4

torture; pains (of hell)

1

dormancy; quiescence; diapause

1

isolated and helpless; alone and unassisted

1

sister (sibling); (Catholic) sister; sister (female partner in a homosexual relationship)

2

years later

2

to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of

2

unable to wait

2

medicine cabinet

13

seat; sheet; spreadsheet

8