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hot flash; rush of blood to the head

5

ancestor; forefather; originator; pioneer; grandfather

1

to grow cold (from room temperature, e.g. in refrigerator); to get chilly; to cool down

2

truly; indeed

1

to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)

2

good (quality, condition, etc.); Good (grade); B

1

increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less

1

steamship; steamboat; steamer

1

supply; provision

2

ordinary person; average person; mediocre person

1

to maintain itself; to last; to make itself pay; to make a living; to keep going

2

appearance (in the eyes of society); decency

2

to do by the use of

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deception; cheating; trickery; fraud

2

exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)

2

Platon

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this kind of

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madness; insanity

2

new invention (discovery)

1

patent medicine; nonprescription drug

1

Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva); Avalokitesvara; Kannon; Kwannon; Guanyin; Buddhist deity of compassion

2

decayed tree; rotted tree; decayed wood; obscure, meaningless life (metaphor)

1

noodles with duck meat and Welsh onions

1

(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

2

lodging house

4

thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan; sukiyaki

2

horsemeat

1

temporary; provisional; interim; special; extraordinary; extra

3

nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web

7

hospitalization; hospitalisation

1

lifetime; one's whole life; all through life

2

to hatch out

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one's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation

2

to make; to manufacture

1

to remove; to clear away; to except from; to make an exception of; to lay aside; to set aside

1

to afflict; to torment; to harass; to molest

1

astringent persimmon

5

constipation

2

sake bottle; tall and slender bottle with a narrow mouth made from ceramic, metal or glass that can be used for sake, shoyu or rice vinegar; turtleneck (sweater); non-swimmer; person who cannot swim

7

bath with a metal pipe

2

(grape) wine

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grape; grapevine

1

tumor; tumour

2

to boil water; to get the bath ready

1

one's mental state

1

theory

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drunkard

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(heavy) drinker; drunkard; tippler; boozer

1

zazen (seated Zen meditation, usu. in a cross-legged position)

1

Hugo

1