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daily rate; (day-by-day) schedule; program

2

long metal chopsticks (for handling charcoal, esp. in a brazier); fire tongs

1

grill or grate for toasting rice cakes

1

two; 2

1

juice; sap; soup; broth; (dipping) sauce

2

bamboo ladle

3

tissue paper; facial tissue; paper handkerchief

1

a bundle; a hundred

1

(one's) skin colour; skin color; skin tone; flesh colour (of a Japanese person); flesh color; pale orange

1

face lotion

1

sacred wine or sake; sake offered to the gods; sake

1

moving (dwelling, office, etc.); changing residence

2

lead of a pencil

1

to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on

1

standoffishly; primly; pungently (of a smell); acridly; long and pointed (e.g. of a nose); popping (of ears)

2

proud

1

charcoal; charred remains

13

to furnish; to install; to get someone's agreement; to patronize; to buy usually from the same store

1

end of the month

2

putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage

1

Japan and the Philippines

1

delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient

4

complex; intricate; complicated; confused; troublesome; vexatious

1

osechi; food eaten during the New Year's Holidays

1

ditch; drain; groove; tread; gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf

1

idle complaint; grumble; moha (ignorance, folly)

2

manuscript fee; payment for a piece of writing

2

to push away; to push aside; to shove

3

to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate

2

fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)

4

gravesite; tomb

6

to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to swing

1

lowly people (Edo period); eta

2

bare feet

2

to grow hot (e.g. water); to boil; to get excited (at); to erupt (in applause, cheering, etc.); to ferment; to melt (of metal)

3

simmering; (boiling) gently

3

tiny area; tiny surface; (lit.) cat's forehead

1

number of years

1

(ancient) Japan; Yamato (former province located in present-day Nara Prefecture)

2

house; hall; building

8

to inform; to notify; to know; to reign

2

kokkuri; divination technique similar to table turning and planchette

1

events of the day; current affairs

3

plain wood; unfinished woodwork

4

second hand clothes shop; somebody who sells second hand clothes

3

black kite (Milvus migrans); construction worker; scaffold erector; fire hook; reddish brown; Inverness cape; filcher

1

to swipe; to nick; to pilfer; to steal

2

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)

1

road; highway

1

to face on; to look out on to

2