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entrance door; front door; gateway (to a region, etc.)

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various articles; various items; various kinds

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sneak thief; petty thief; cat burglar

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momentum; amount of exercise

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handkerchief

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monologue; soliloquy; talking to oneself

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(your) time

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frizzy (hair); wiry; sizzling; frizzling; stingingly (of heat or cold); painfully

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to temper a sword; to forge a sword

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to dent; to indent; to depress; to humiliate

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to sheathe one's sword; to lay down arms; to bury the hatchet

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sharp parting remark; parting threat

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(filled) to the brim

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penetrating cold

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clean; clear; pure; honest; clean

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farewell cups of water

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of good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)

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ominous; ill-omened; inauspicious; unlucky; sinister

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omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing

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to come down in the world; to fall low; to be ruined; to be reduced to poverty; to fall on hard times

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bottomless (bucket, etc.); unbounded (good nature, optimism, etc.); boundless; imprudent; indiscreet; extremely heavy drinker

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connivance; overlooking

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cheap sake

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mountain stream

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to thrust down; to push off

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to die by drowning; to drown

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Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Tarō (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)

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violent conduct; misconduct; dissipation; profligacy; debauchery

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chance; opportunity; lucky break

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dead men tell no tales; the dead cannot speak in their own defense

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to drink someone down; to drink someone under the table

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phrase (verse, line); one haiku-poem

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sebum; sebaceous matter

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ninth month of the lunar calendar; September

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dawn (esp. from the 16th day of the lunar month onward); portable paper lantern for walking at night

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to cramp; to be cramped; to get a cramp (in)

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waiting in vain

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Chihayaburu

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Tatsutagawa

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suspense (esp. in a film, novel, etc.)

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high class; high grade

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lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end

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tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem

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haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae

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sea bream (esp. Pagrus major); porgy

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flounder (esp. the large-tooth flounders of family Paralichthyidae, but also lefteye flounders of family Bothidae); bastard halibut; olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus); person who sucks up to superiors; toady

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woman of unmatched beauty; beauty like no other

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(even) a little bit

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selection

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kite

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