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insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness

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to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)

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tough; stubborn; determined; severely; heavily; hard

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breathing; respiration; knack; trick; harmony; balance

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tension; mental strain; nervousness

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creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention

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emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness

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coolie; laborer; labourer; carrier

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temple festival; fair; fete day; day related to a particular deity and thought to bring divine blessing to those who celebrate it

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ancient Shinto music and dancing

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last year

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wicker(work) (cane, rattan) chair

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on the cheap side; comparatively cheap; wait tile which produces a winning hand with a lower score

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tightly (packed); densely; closely; crammed

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to cram; to stuff; to jam; to squeeze; to compress; to pack

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bookshelf

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ornament; decoration

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over the top; thickly; heavily; richly

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dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic

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to erase; to delete; to turn off (power); to switch off; to extinguish; to put out

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book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter

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container; receptacle; case; inserting; putting in

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flower; flowering plant

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to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included

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hunting; shooting; game; quarry

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to meet somebody by chance; to happen upon

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garden shrubs; trees; potted plant

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figure of a person; figures of people; shadow of a person

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sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic

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Taiwan

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common reed (Phragmites australis)

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good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable

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stock; share; stump; (clump of) roots; plant with attached roots or stem; strain (of bacteria, etc.); stock company

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flowering plant

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thirst; craving; thirst (for love, knowledge, etc.); hunger

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hum (of a TV, radio, etc.)

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hustle and bustle; throng; crowd; congestion; traffic jam

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bystreet; side street; back street; alley; lane

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to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear

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to invite; to ask (someone to do); to tempt; to lure; to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy)

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dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish

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to fall asleep

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to go along; to walk along; to follow

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door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows

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indoor; inside the room

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small window; fenestella; scuttle (type of hatch on a ship)

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to look through; to hold up to the light; to make an opening; to leave space; to fart without making a sound

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to let in (fresh) air

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to begin; to set about; to start

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low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)

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