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garden stone

1

chapped (hands)

1

house-cloth; dust cloth

2

painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh

1

daily routine; daily work; daily lesson

2

cleaning with a cloth (floors, etc.); dirty work; low-level work; apprentice work

1

to volunteer; to undertake a challenge

1

gidayū (type of reciting used in the puppet theater)

3

Kyoto and vicinity (esp. during Edo period); Kyoto-Osaka region; Kansai region

2

samisen player

1

how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)

1

high-class Edo-period pleasure house (where outside prostitutes were hired to entertained guests)

1

thousand years; very long period; forever

6

bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza); dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn); Hagi (city in Yamaguchi)

2

Hiyoshimaru (name of Toyotomi Hideyoshi during his youth)

2

round; circular; curved; smooth; harmonious; calm

2

several (levels, floors)

1

plain wood; unfinished woodwork

1

(vocal) volume

1

four (long cylindrical things)

1

sweetness; sugary taste; sweets; dessert; cake

1

technique; finesse

1

to age

2

to be complicated; to be elaborate; (arch.) to push in; (arch.) to be crowded

1

to glide; to slide (e.g. on skis); to fail (an examination); to bomb (when telling a joke); to drop; to go down

1

large biceps; well-developed biceps

2

to turn completely into; to become completely

1

more; much more; step; rung; paragraph; passage

1

Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil); picotee morning glory; funnel-shaped object; bell (e.g. of a trumpet); (arch.) rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)

1

canal

1

feel; touch; impression (of a person); most impressive passage; highlight; beginning

2

to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach

4

residential area

1

small; little; tiny; insignificant; humble; modest

1

abundant; plentiful; rich; ample

1

legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; female genitalia (esp. the clitoris); kidney; small

1

bean sprouts

1

red turnip; small red radish

3

standing upright; standing bolt upright; rearing

1

(hand) towel

6

to hang; to suspend; to dangle; to swing; to carry

3

working one's way through school; earning one's own school fees; studying under adversity; studying in harsh economic circumstances

1

to fall ill; to be taken ill

1

back; behind; rear

3

literature

1

heaps; a lot; plenty; with a thud

1

walking alone; walking without assistance; unique; matchless; unparalleled

1

Souseki

1

Tolstoy; Tolstoi

1

Dostoevskii; Dostoyevskii

1