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10-point card; tane; animal card

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match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; (lit.) bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting)

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city girl; fashionable girl

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silent killer

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Yuiko

5

Inaka

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the Ono no Michikaze card and three other 20-point cards (scoring combination)

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Shuuko

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last year's tea

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5-point card with a red tanzaku; red ribbon card; the three 5-point cards with ribbons (high-scoring meld)

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Komi

10

the five 20-point cards (high-scoring meld)

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Ryouko

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first year of elementary school; first year elementary school student

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the Sun, the Moon and the stars; three non-rain 20-point cards (high-scoring meld)

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(ceremonial) arrow used to drive off evil

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versus; vs.; v.

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continuing to pitch

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sense; infer

1

gambler; risk taker

1

traffic safety; driving safety; road safety

1

koi-koi (type of hanafuda game); koi koi

12

dear; darling; adorable; precious; cute; lovely

1

taking the field first, thus batting second

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lathe; potter's wheel; windlass; pulley

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community; communication

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beautiful woman with cold, standoffish air

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hanafuda; flower cards; playing cards consisting of 12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower

4

this (current) year

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accidental resemblance

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arista; awn; (grain) beard

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cool; stylish; awesome; sick; sweet; dope

2

ehehe (embarrassed laugh); ahaha

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batting first

2

shrine office; office of a Shinto shrine

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daruma; tumbling doll; Bodhidharma; prostitute

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easy delivery; easy childbirth; safe birth

1

snowball fight

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too; also; still; as before; even so; either way

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snowball

3

living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet

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heeding; paying attention; bearing in mind

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moon viewing (esp. during the eight month of the lunar calendar)

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let's do it; I (we) are going to do it

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halo; aureole; aureola; halo (optical phenomenon); glory

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(it was) not until; (it was) only when

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New Year's gift (usu. money given to a child by relatives and visitors)

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long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle

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Chinese firebird; Chinese phoenix

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to rule; to govern; (arch.) to see; (arch.) to look; (arch.) to watch

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