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grocery store; dealer in dried goods

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herring roe

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salmon (Salmonidae spp.); chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta); dog salmon

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oval tub or tray used in fish shops

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Japan's old (lunisolar) calendar

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New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

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habit; (social) custom; practice; convention

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to be main; to be principal; to be important

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decorating shrines and gates with shimenawa ropes for the New Year

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to be conspicuous; to stand out

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kotatsu; table over an electric heater, with a hanging quilt to retain heat (orig. over a charcoal brazier in a floor well)

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to read (a book); to open (a book) to read; to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)

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sleet; daikon shavings; grated daikon; shaved ice topped with honey

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to surround; to encircle; to enclose; to fawn over (someone); to play up to; to curry favor with

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remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude

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terrible; dreadful; tremendous; terrific; appalling; shocking

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public finance; financial affairs; financial situation

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prone to complaining; petulant; querulous; grumpy

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deep sigh

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to breathe out; to breathe; to tell (a lie); to use (foul language); to vomit; to throw up

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thrift; economy; frugality

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caustic

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contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import

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tediously (explain, complain, etc.); repeatedly; persistently; insistently; ad nauseam; at great length

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unwise plan; bad policy; inexpediency

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rarely; seldom

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the most; the best; the greatest; supreme; unrivalled; unsurpassed

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effeminate; unmanly; cowardly; sissy

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sunny (room, etc.); well sunlit

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Umbonium costatum (species of sea snail)

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gun; pistol; ohajiki; traditional children's game similar to marbles, played with coin-shaped pieces of coloured glass or plastic; repellence

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police; police officer; police station; self-appointed enforcer (of a rule, standard, etc.); busybody

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police inspector

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traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary; fundamentals; the ABCs of ...

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(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game

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recitation; reciting from memory

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love song; love poem

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from the beginning; from scratch

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number; amount

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certain; sure; no doubt; reliable; dependable

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smoothly; easily; readily

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to answer; to reply

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one's future; one's fate; prospects; one's way; one's path

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good luck!; all the best

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old friend; old pal

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to suspect

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feeling ashamed; feeling of one's inferiority

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city

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bitter orange (Citrus aurantium); sour orange; Seville orange; orange (color, colour)

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rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil; (arch.) cordoning off; (arch.) cordoning-off sign

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