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Kansai (region comprising Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and surrounding prefectures); Kansai (western half of Japan; during the feudal era)

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each day; from day to day; day-to-day

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manuscript; copy; draft; notes; contribution

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making a round trip; going and returning; round-trip ticket; return ticket; correspondence; exchanging (of letters)

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(arch.) sudden; (arch.) abrupt; (arch.) stupid; (arch.) foolish; attaining enlightenment in one effort (without ascetic practices, etc.)

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seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand

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cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)

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novel serialized in a newspaper

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forty; 40

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for a short while; for a while; for some time; for the time being

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long work; (full-length) novel; feature-length film; long poem

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dose; installment; instalment

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apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal

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therefore; and so; for that reason; accordingly; consequently; hence

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district; region; the country; countryside; civilian society

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being (somewhere); sitting

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to hold still; to hold in place; to calm down; to become steady (e.g. of nerves); to become fixed (e.g. of a gaze); to become glazed

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abrupt; sudden; unexpected

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morning sun

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Kanji

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in the rain

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pair

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vista; view; scene; counter for scenes (in a play)

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antique; historical object; pre-Meiji period drama; period piece

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Toshusai Sharaku (Edo period painter)

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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965; author)

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knotweed (Polygonaceae); jointweed; smartweed; water pepper (Persicaria hydropiper)

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to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment

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insect; bug; worm; roundworm; thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious; nervousness

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near; close; close (in time); soon; close (relationship); friendly

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Osaka-Kobe; Hanshin (company name: railway, dept. store, baseball team, etc.)

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safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good

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fate; destiny; connection; tie; pretext; justification

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Uno

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to be lifted; to be raised; to happen suddenly; to occur; to be homeroom teacher for the same class multiple years in a row; to move up with one's class

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and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless

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to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)

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to float; to be suspended; to rise to the surface; to appear; to come to mind; to have inspiration

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protagonist; main character; hero; head (of a household); proprietor (of a store)

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real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally

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human-interest article; city news; local news; police news

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to make a lovely picture; to be perfect for a picture; picture-perfect; picturesque

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all; everyone; everybody

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to see to it that ...; to make sure that ...; to try to ...; to make an effort to ...

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if it is (the case that ...)

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newspaper

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space on a page (e.g. in a newspaper); surface of paper; letter; writings

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according to; by (means of); due to; because of

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reader

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poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty

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