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puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex

1

clear; plain; distinct; obvious; evident; articulate

2

allotment; apportionment; share; dividend

1

busyness; a lot of things to do; frequent use; heavy use (of); many uses

2

bone; frame; outline; core; backbone; spirit

4

knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes

1

broker; employment agency

1

blunder; bungle; clumsiness

1

profit; advantage; benefit; rebirth in paradise, entering nirvana

1

same trade; same business; same profession

1

to have a lot of influence (in); to have clout (with); to be influential; to have contacts (in)

4

succession; continuation; series; sequence

1

top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat

1

woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves); beggar; (arch.) Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)

2

traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; crown; diadem; top kanji radical; first verse of a haikai, etc.; best; peerless

4

Italy

7

incense

4

escaping the summer heat; going somewhere cooler during the summer; summering

1

mother and child

1

alternation; change; relief; relay; shift; substitution (sports, etc.)

1

every year; yearly; annually

2

ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run

5

beyond the middle

2

wrapped package; bale; wicker trunk; wicker luggage

1

muscle stiffness (esp. in shoulders)

1

young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony); young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute); younger partner in a homosexual relationship

1

packing; baling; crating

3

tsukemono; Japanese pickled vegetables

2

bucket; pail; tub

1

to carry something out of a place; to elevate (someone) to a high position; to convince someone to accept a post (esp. through flattery); to mention something; to broach a topic

1

very careful; thoroughly prepared

1

party; company

1

to draw (a thread); to let out (e.g. a rope); to head out as a group; to set out in large numbers; to send out one after another; to dispatch

1

long, slender and well-proportioned; smooth, continuous (movement)

1

high-quality plain-woven hemp cloth

1

splash pattern (e.g. on a kimono); dye pattern; kasuri

2

silk crepe

3

poultry shed

3

waist band

1

Panama

1

hat; cap

1

to come off; to be worn off; to fade; to discolor; to discolour

3

to hide; to conceal

5

white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white go stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine

1

snow; snowfall

4

on the way back; returning

2

Mt.; Mount; (fig.) Mt.; (fig.) Mount

2

palanquin; litter; bier; kago

1

Asian hazel (Corylus heterophylla var. thunbergii); Siberian hazel

2

lake (in place names)

1