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entrance fee; initiation fee; registration fee; (arch.) gift of dried meat from a new vassal or pupil

2

you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she

9

Kyoto (city, prefecture)

1

ding (of a bell); bing; honk (i.e. sound of blowing one's nose); snort; heating in a microwave; cooking in a microwave

1

electricity; (electric) light

2

lever; agent (causing something to happen); instrument; assistant; helper

1

juice; sap; soup; broth

1

to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)

1

bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry

1

feeling depressed; feeling gloomy; feeling downhearted

1

left and right; right and left; (asserting) control; influence; one's attendants; people accompanying one

4

to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside

3

back; rear; background; behind the scenes

1

the world; society; sphere; circle; world-renowned; world-famous

10

to be temperate in; to refrain; to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number); to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for

4

now; come (now); well

3

to wear (sword, decoration, etc.); to carry; to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission); to take on; to have a trace of; to be tinged with

6

prayer; wish; vow

4

benevolence (esp. as a virtue of Confucianism); consideration; human; kernel; nucleolus

1

close-cropped head

2

to float; to become merry; to be cheerful; to become loose; to become unsteady; to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you)

2

jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)

2

jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)

1

dim; gloomy

7

blood (in one's face, cheeks, etc.); colour; color; hot-bloodedness; hotheadedness; impulsive temperament

1

characteristic (of); peculiar (to)

2

to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)

2

long (time); protracted; prolonged

4

going backward; turning back; backtracking; retrogression; relapse; returning to a bad state

2

one third; a third part

1

two thirds

1

mixture; amalgam

1

to cross (e.g. road); to traverse

3

young; youthful; immature; green; low (number); small

13

to shine; to glitter; to sparkle

1

youth; young man

21

people; men and women; each person; everybody

3

laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)

1

to peel; to skin; to pare; to hull; to bare (e.g. fangs); to open wide (e.g. eyes)

4

the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come

17

to emboss; to print out; to print; to work out (e.g. policy); to hammer out; to strike (a drum indicating the end of a performance)

1

bell (often a large hanging bell); chime

1

echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound

3

walk; stroll

4

a (wide) main street

2

road (or railway) cut through hilly terrain; cutting

1

to bend; to curve; to turn; to be awry; to be askew

8

geisha call-office; assignation office for geisha; geisha on call

1

keyboard (piano, computer, etc.)

1

flounder (esp. the large-tooth flounders of family Paralichthyidae, but also lefteye flounders of family Bothidae); bastard halibut; olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)

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