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3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle

4

Kire

4

tough; hard; determined; strong-minded; strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe

4

to name; to take a second name or alias; to announce; to boast; to declare

4

book; volume

4

bookcase

2

many; much; plenty; hardly

2

to pile up; to stack up; to accumulate

1

sparse; distant (of a relationship); estranged; alienated

1

minister of state

4

carelessness; careless mistake; wetting oneself; soiling oneself; (arch.) crude; (arch.) coarse

1

to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn

20

to close; to shut

1

tabi; Japanese socks (with split toe)

2

to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)

4

new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date

1

bowstring; string (of shamisen, guitar, violin, etc.); bail (arched pot handle); diagonal levelling wire across the top of a masu

1

way; method; means

3

to topple over and lean at a precarious angle; to fall onto something and lean against it; to be on the point of collapse; to be about to fall; to begin to fall

1

play; drama

2

ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples; rice dance; rice festival; tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso; turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-tofu on both sides

1

tool; implement; means; furniture

5

to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than

8

to peek (through a keyhole, gap, etc.); to look down into (a ravine, etc.); to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.); to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at; to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.); to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.)

11

stairs; rank; grade; guide; guidebook; slanted ladder (exercise equipment)

10

ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)

6

top (of a flight of stairs); exit involving a descent (e.g. from a bus)

2

dear me!; good gracious!; well; let me see; now

7

cellar; cave; hole in the ground

2

bookshelf

5

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

1

food (on a table) (esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant); cook; chef; person who prepares food

2

March; third month of the lunar calendar

1

the first bonito of the season

1

sashimi (raw sliced fish, shellfish or crustaceans)

2

nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets

1

accession

1

kiss

1

prawn; shrimp; lobster; crayfish

1

fish

17

neighbourhood; neighborhood

2

restaurant

2

to order; to send away for; to have (something) sent to one; to pull (something) closer

6

cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration

6

light; lamplight

15

light; illumination; glow; lamp; light

18

to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)

3

mountain wind

1

sleeved quilt; futon with sleeves; cotton padded nightwear

1

open air; outdoors; outside

1