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2

next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour

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to pull; to draw; to string (lines); to run (cable); to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve); to drag; to haul

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to have the nerve to

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master; teacher; stable master

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house where one was born; one's parents' house

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Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)

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carpenter

13

Touzaemon

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surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance

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place where one works; construction site; working area

1

spacious; vast; wide

47

tatami mat with a wooden plank for a core (used in tokonoma, etc.); wooden floor

1

counter for people

186

gossip; idle talk; chat

1

style of jōruri narrative used for kabuki dances

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riches; wealth; resources; lottery

171

spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence

183

hot water; hot bath; hot spring; molten iron

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tool; implement; means; furniture

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smiling face; smile

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oh!; oh?; my!

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greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; revenge

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older brother; elder brother

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younger sister

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mistress; kept woman; concubine

112

to become; to amount to

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furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more

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to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on

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to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

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hakama; man's formal divided skirt

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wakizashi; short sword worn by samurai

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to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign

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olden days; former

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sitting cross-legged (i.e. Indian style)

2

oh, yes?; really?

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dressing up

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flattery; cajolery; flirtation

9

bare feet

2

bridge of nose

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frog; kajika frog (Buergeria buergeri)

5

-like; sort of; similar to; resembling

10

back (of body)

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to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)

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elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself

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sometimes; often

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falsetto

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tone of voice; mimicry; imitative voice

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to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted

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shaft of an arrow (usu. made of thin bamboo); cornetfish

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