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osechi; food eaten during the New Year's Holidays

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hanetsuki (Japanese badminton); battledore and shuttlecock

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(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards

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tuck (e.g. in a dress); rise (e.g. in price)

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picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage

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electric line; electric cable; power cable; telephone line; telegraph wire

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fukuwarai; New Year's game in which blindfolded players place cutouts of facial features onto the outline of a face

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Western style

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innocent; chaste; naive; pure; unmixed; genuine

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Japanese style; light wind; moderate breeze

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Chihayaburu

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ancient time; age of the gods

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waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

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first part of a poem or verse

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to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem; to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone

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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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section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.

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ticket; token; label; tag; sign; card; playing card

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to make good; to improve; to do often; to be kind to; to treat well

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classic (work, esp. book); the classics

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intellectual

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game; play; sports

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Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny

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Semimaru

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turn

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with a glitter; with a sparkle; brand new; shiny and new

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attack; assault; raid; criticism; censure; denunciation

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opposite; opposition; versus; vs.; to (e.g. "winning a game five to three"); equal footing

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belle; (town) beauty

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rice cakes; pounded mochi rice

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calorie

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matchbox

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rice bowl; tea cup; teacup

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amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic); full; one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat; fully; to capacity

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shiruko; sweet red-bean soup with mochi

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kinako mochi; mochi sprinkled with sweetened soy flour

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again (and again); once again; yet again; (there you go) again

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your home; your family; their home; (my) home

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pasta

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fresh pasta

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to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)

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to rust; to become rusty

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cloth; fabric; dough; batter; inherent quality; one's true character; unglazed pottery

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genuine; real; full-scale; full-blown; full-fledged; professional

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dried noodles

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osechi; osechi-ryōri; traditional food eaten during the New Year's holidays

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roast chicken

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French food

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full-course dinner; multicourse meal

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to bite off; to gnaw through

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