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sixth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; tapering thinning curve, usually concave left

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dregs; sediment; lees (esp. sake); leftovers; by-product; worthless item; junk

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stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled

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on the road; on the street; in the street; on the way

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highwayman; bandit; brigand; highway robbery; holdup; mugging

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place hidden from view; cover; shelter; hiding place

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to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm

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evil spirits of rivers and mountains

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to live; to reside; to inhabit

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fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking

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great achievement; great feat; great work; great undertaking

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at; in; on

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(sense of) crushing evil

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menace; threat; intimidation

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doctor

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fiercely; ferociously; furiously; resolutely

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pressure; oppression; suppression

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to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum

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double suicide; lovers' suicide

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to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)

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suddenly; all of a sudden

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thunder

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sharp, loud rebuke; bark; roar; rebuke used in Zen to achieve enlightenment

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to hide oneself

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secret; clandestine; covert; spy (for a daimyo, shogun, etc.); secret agent

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to proceed with things; to carry out; to do

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to be doing; to be in the process of doing

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lower branches of a tree

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unexpected; surprising

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irreplaceable

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to escape; to run away

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to stammer; to stutter

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oh my god!; oh my gosh!; you got me!; wow!

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elegance; taste; refinement

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Kōzuke (former province located in present-day Gunma Prefecture)

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in the mountains; within the grounds of a temple

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un-; non-; bad ...; poor ...

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squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii); Lepisorus thunbergianus (species of fern); color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue); ancient women's hairstyle; clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern

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to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of

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to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over

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mischief; prank; pastime; hobby; playing with (a lighter, etc.); fooling around with

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to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something

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neighborhood; vicinity; environs; approaching

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Miyuki

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pine tree (Pinus spp.); highest (of a three-tier ranking system)

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the four seasons

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to apologize sincerely; to apologise sincerely

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to take someone's hand

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elephant (Elephantidae spp.)

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sect; denomination; school (e.g. of poetry)

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