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hibernation; staying indoors during winter

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competitive karuta

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Bubaigawara

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invulnerability; immortality; insensibility to pain

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unselected

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common hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum); Analipus japonicus (species of brown alga)

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to leave out (someone); to exclude; to ignore; to ostracize; to shun

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brocade; fine dress; fine clothes

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metropolitan; managed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government

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cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull

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final selection (e.g. of applicants); final screening; shortlisting

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finally; after; following; at the end (of)

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Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)

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inside the Imperial Palace; Department of the Imperial Household

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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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leather

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one's (only) good suit (or kimono)

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(regular) route; fixed route; specified route; suggested route

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recitation; reciting from memory

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Grand Prix

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New Year's card

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(speak) bluntly; frankly

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high-status Shinto shrine with connection to imperial family; imperial Shinto shrine

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beauty contest to name Miss ...

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storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)

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delivery

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mess; spoiled; spoilt; (come to) nothing; ruin

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having done ... by mistake; having messed up ...

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millennium; one thousand years; (fig.) long time

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short distance; short range; short-haul

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profitable; worn-out; crumbling

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one-way (trip); one-way ticket

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Ōmi (former province located in present-day Shiga Prefecture)

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escalator

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to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate

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You'll regret this!; I'll get you for this; Just you wait

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senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)

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to confess one's love; to profess one's feelings

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water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout

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crouched burial

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in the ward or borough

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soccer club (at a school); football club

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contest

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(imperial) reign; period

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queen

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shape of the "dai" kanji (esp. person with arms and legs outstretched); sprawling; lying spread-eagled

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branch; bough; limb; twig; sprig; spray

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Japan's best; number one in Japan

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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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seal; sticker

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