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bozu mekuri; bonze turnup; card game played with a hyakunin isshu deck

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competitive karuta

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Ogura Anthology of One Hundred Tanka by One Hundred Poets

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Chihayaburu

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Bubaigawara

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professional go players' championship series; professional shogi players' championship series

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championship series

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field full of flowers

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opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor

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tiger fur

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to pass (examination)

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eating one's lunch box before lunchtime (e.g. of a student)

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queen

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garlic chives (Allium tuberosum); Chinese chives; Chinese leek

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evening; last night; yesterday evening

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rhyming game; play on words; pun

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Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (1892.3.1-1927.7.24)

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cello; violoncello

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Genji and Heike clans; two opposing sides

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young imperial prince; child of the imperial family; shrine dedicated to a child of the god of the main shrine; newly built shrine (to which a divided tutelary deity has just been transferred)

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

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leakage; omission; oversight; I; me

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dismissal of class (at the end of the day); recess (at school); break

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cruelty; hard-heartedness

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to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem

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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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whitecaps; white-crested waves; thief

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karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards

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spelling; orthography; patching; binding

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individual match; single game

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team competition; team game

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to jaunt around; to play around; to visit one place after another without effect

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Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)

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school of one's (first, second) choice

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Tuesday

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student card; student ID

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first class plus; extra special

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noninclusion in a team; not being chosen to play

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demonstration; protest; (giving a) demo; demonstration; exhibition game; exhibition match

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Heian period (794-1185)

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club budget; club expense

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melon bread; half-melon shaped bun, flavored with artificial melon

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greedy

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Thursday

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filling a vacancy; supplementation; substitute; deputy; alternate

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middle; centre; center

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traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary; fundamentals; the ABCs of ...

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quiz; short test; mini test

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the Dragon (fifth sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Dragon (around 8am, 7-9am, or 8-10am); east-southeast; third month of the lunar calendar

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