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recollection; retrospection; reflection; reminiscence

4

weather forecast; weather report

3

beautiful weather; clear and cloudless sky; clear Japanese weather

2

silk thread; silk yarn

1

loud (criticism, protest, etc.); noisy; clamorous; boisterous; uproarious; fierce

2

willpower; energy; vitality

3

buzzing (e.g. of insects); chirring; whirring (e.g. of a reel); humming (of electronics); hissing

1

to wipe off; to wipe up

4

one's only good clothes (suit, dress, etc.); one's only suit of clothes; one's best clothes; one's Sunday best

3

stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration

18

flute; fife; pipe; whistle

3

to speak with an accent; to mispronounce; to be corrupted (of word)

2

to blush

7

flurried; flustered; upset; nervous; embarrassed

6

axle; pivot; center (of power, activity); central point; the Axis (WWII alliance)

1

confession

6

ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition

1

complementation; supplementation; completion

2

extra; excess; surplus

1

starting work (for the day); employment; work

3

abuse; misuse; perversion

1

moderation; self-restraint; temperance

1

(eating) heartily; energetically; vigorously; bulging (muscles); welling up (of strength, courage, etc.)

2

echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit

2

chapter; section; medal; badge; insignia

2

situation comedy; sitcom; family comedy

2

to delineate; to draw; to express; to imagine

5

basket clam (Corbiculidae spp.); freshwater clam; freshwater mussel

5

to begin to dance; to break into a dance

3

two-family house; house for a two-generation family

2

hair style; coiffure; hairdo

1

housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker

1

Suruga (former province located in the central and northern parts of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)

1

school route; street used by students going to and from school (esp. on foot)

1

grip; having all the cards needed to form a scoring combination in one's hand

2

young Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata)

3

to put to bed; to let sleep; to lay (something) down; to put on its side; to let (money, goods, etc.) lie idle; to set aside unused

5

proverb; saying; aphorism; maxim

2

in spring one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn; in spring one sleeps like a log

1

start; beginning

1

tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing

2

distribution (e.g. films, rice); rationing (e.g. food, gasoline); food ration

1

Manchuria; Manchukuo (Japanese Manchurian puppet state; 1932-1945)

1

pulling up; drawing up; raising; increase; repatriation; evacuation

1

standalone book (i.e. not part of an anthology, series, etc.); (book published as a) single volume; tankōbon; individual volume of a manga series

1

volume 1; first volume

1

original story (as opposed to a sequel, spin-off, etc.); main story; this volume; the movie (as opposed to the trailers; at a movie theater); feature film (main item in a cinema program); movie based on a TV series

1

situation comedy; sitcom; family comedy

1

ad lib; ad-lib

1

thick wakame leaves from near the stem

2