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to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem

2

to raise (usu. one's shoulders, with a jaunty, swaggering effect)

1

unripe; green; inexperienced; immature; unskilled

1

ability; capability; skill

1

ridiculous; absurd

1

physique; bodily build

1

brittle; fragile; weak; tender-hearted; sentimental; easily moved

1

arrow; wedge; chock

2

head-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)

1

uncommonly; extraordinary

1

twitching

1

to be moreish; to have a quality that encourages you to eat (drink) more of them after; to have lingering effects

1

sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable

1

to suffer; to groan; to be worried

1

to grow wild; to run to waste; to become rough (of art, craft, etc.); to lose refinement; to intensify (of wind, rain, etc.); to become more severe

1

reasonable; natural

1

if you think about it; come to think of it

1

to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do

4

one advantage; merit

1

to lose sight of; to miss

3

to slip into (a place) for the purposes of having sex (e.g. a lover's house, hotel, red light district); to shack up with; to shut oneself away at home (due to lack of money)

1

sound of something striking repeatedly (e.g. wooden clappers); something small hopping repeatedly; touching lightly and repeatedly; punctuation marks such as the dakuten; Chonchon; South American mythical bird

1

pillow; bolster; introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story); lead-in

4

number (in a series); (one's) turn; watch; guard; rank; standing; bout

2

to commit (e.g. crime); to perpetrate; to break (e.g. rule); to violate; to rape; to violate

1

to arrive home; to return

2

thatched hut

3

tall-paneled sliding door

1

disorder; confusion; clutter; mess; muddle; disarray

2

to fling; to throw off (clothes); to kick off (boots)

3

tall wooden clogs

1

very messy; (stuff) all over the place; (lit.) no space even for one's feet

1

staying up all night

1

meeting; gathering; village assembly; two wrestlers approaching each other

3

to shut one's eyes; to ignore; to pretend not to know; to die

1

child's face; childlike face; boyish face; baby face

1

centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government

1

dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward)

2

to fall completely silent; to become still as death

1

most; extremely

1

poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite

1

every person; each one; everybody

1

writing brush; paintbrush; writing with a brush; drawing with a brush; writing (composing text); the written word

1

first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface

1

head; chief; boss; leader

2

Tetsunosuke

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Matsunosuke

1

important person

1

Okabe

2

Sanjuurou

1