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nobleman's illegitimate child; product (of e.g. war); offspring; aftermath

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light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous

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Hasebe

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a lot; to a very great extent; absolutely

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semipermanence

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natto bacteria (Bacillus subtilis var. natto)

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counter for buildings (esp. houses); suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.

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to be pressed for time; to be pressed by urgent business; to have one's pants on fire

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appreciation (of art, music, poetry, etc.)

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Alava (Spain)

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Attu

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seahorse; sea horse

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ouch!; hot, hot, hot!; something hot; fire

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rise; improvement; uptrend

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irreligion; lack of religion; unbelief

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Gokuu

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to form a complete whole; to be joined together

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see-through; sheer

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strategic withdrawal; strategic retreat

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stormy and full of drama; many drastic events in the course of events; full of ups and downs; with many vicissitudes

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catfish (esp. the Amur catfish, Silurus asotus); (arch.) earthquake

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serious crime; grave crime

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rare species

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alternately sucking in and blowing out air through one's mouth while eating something hot (in order to cool it down)

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Word of God; God's Word; sword of the Spirit; Logos (i.e. the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ)

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Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)

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distrust of (other) human beings

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publication of results; announcement of results

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pit; shaft

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(arch.) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (arch.) South-East Asia; (arch.) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions

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soft; tender; gentle; mild; informal; light

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raid; attack; assault

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I; as for me

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descendant (usu. of a certain generation); (arch.) lineage; (arch.) pedigree; (arch.) grandchild

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egg white; white-fleshed fish (e.g. tai, hirame, karei); white meat; sapwood

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herbal medicine prepared from dried earthworms

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lie; rye; rai (Algerian music style)

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ear; year

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middle part; medium depth (water); medium layer; medium-size; mid-level; medium-rise (building)

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comfortably warm; steaming hot (food); piping hot; glowing (with warmth)

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

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harmony

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divorce; dissolution of adoption

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Japanese beech (Fagus crenata); Siebold's beech

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to consume

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shelving; pigeonholing

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equal match; good match; fair match; equal in ability; being a worthy rival

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hey!; c'mon!; pushy; overbearing; self-assured

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round; circular; spherical; mellow (flavour, voice, etc.); mild; smooth

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to be outdone (by); to be in inferior (to); to compare unfavorably (with); to be behind

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