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seasonal festival

2

mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)

2

notification (from a high to a low official)

1

slightly good luck (as a fortune telling result)

1

won't (hasn't, isn't, doesn't, etc.); won't you

2

participation; joining; entry; adherence

4

workmanship; craftsmanship; grades; results; quality (e.g. of a crop); dealings

13

messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)

3

errand; mission; messenger; bearer; familiar spirit; use

1

tedium; boredom; dullness; to feel bored; to get bored with; to get tired of

5

crash; smash; bang; sound of a large, heavy object falling

2

to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)

1

alone; by oneself; on one's own

20

evil; wickedness; (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.); the bad guy

8

difficult to ...; hard to ...

2

to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace

4

to call; to invite; to eat; to drink; to put on; to wear; to ride

2

amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic); full; one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat; fully; to capacity

3

pouring alcohol; person pouring alcohol (esp. a woman)

5

pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously

6

Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny

16

ladle; dipper; wild chervil (Anthriscus sylvestris); cow parsley; keck

1

woman; girl

14

entering the priesthood; priest; monk; bonze

22

abandoning (hope, plans); giving up

1

feeling; sense; impression

1

the other day; lately; recently; meanwhile; in the meantime

9

skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis); oceanic bonito; victorfish

1

large front gate

1

yakuza coat of arms

1

year before last

1

like; similar to; as with; in the same way

13

(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances

1

to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor

5

unluckily

1

shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof

3

to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake

4

8000; eight thousand; many

1

ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)

1

to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)

17

crucian carp (Carassius spp.)

1

within the prefecture (of Kyoto or Osaka); (arch.) within the town limits of Edo

3

to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve

2

to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)

27

to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think

14

16; sixteen

13

wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason

12

unforgettable; impossible to forget; lucidly remember

1

end of the month

4

to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end

5