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Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Tarō (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)

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butterfly

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confections; sweets; candy; cake

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nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)

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looking good; sounding good; (of) good appearance

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to surmount a difficulty; to go across a mountain

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to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)

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light yellow

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with a bang; with a crash; with a bump; suddenly (fall); sharply

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puppeteer; puppet player; wirepuller; string-puller; man behind the scenes

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puppet; marionette; puppeteer; (arch.) prostitute

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to break; to fracture; to fold; to bend; to make (origami); to interrupt

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older; senior

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for dear life; barely escaping alive

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younger; junior

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curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange

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Touroku

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whole life; a lifetime; all through life; (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

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gathering place; labour camp for drifters, criminals, etc. (Edo period); entertainment hall (for rakugo, manzai, magic, music, etc.); vaudeville theater (theatre)

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kindheartedness

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outline; main points; generally; on the whole; general; rough

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mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary

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operation; management; handling; manipulating (to one's benefit); manipulation; influencing

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fence; paling; railing; (arch.) fortress

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dangerous; risky; in danger; in jeopardy; uncertain; unreliable

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part of the feet from the ankles to the tips of the toes

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dirty smoke; soot and smoke

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senior; older

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not all bad; not as dissatisfied (or annoyed) as one would have others believe

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every direction

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abduction; kidnapping; kidnaping

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workman; craftsman; laborer; labourer; artisan

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bodyguard; escort

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company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)

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armory; armoury; arsenal; ordnance department

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privacy; secrecy; confidentiality

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nobleman; dignitary; feudal lord (of the Edo period); daimyō; man brought up away from the world; arrogant man with little knowledge of the ways of the world

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new idea or design; novelty

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ancient type of cannon

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Kajii

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belated; eleventh-hour

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begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

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(arch.) discarding; (arch.) abandoning; variety of street performance from the Middle Ages; casting off one's attachments (in Zen)

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dismissal of class (at the end of the day); recess (at school); break

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mountain ascetic; practitioner of Shugendō

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blind person

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several people; some people; a few people; a number of people

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pulling up; drawing up; raising; increase; repatriation; evacuation

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Japanese giant flying squirrel (Petaurista leucogenys)

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