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speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...

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prison; jail; gaol; firm; solid; strong

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so much

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growth; development; one's early life; upbringing; personal history

2

intimacy; friendship; familiarity

4

sympathy

2

pity; compassion

1

kind-hearted; compassionate; charitable

1

reminiscence; nostalgia; thinking fondly of the past; recalling the old days

1

to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to

1

commemoration; celebration; honoring the memory of something; turning something into a memento; memory

1

a certain ...; some ...

2

heart; mind; bottom of one's heart; core (of one's character); centre; center; heart (organ)

3

lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pathetic; piteous

3

synthesis; coordination; putting together; comprehensive

1

focus (e.g. photographic); focal point

1

thick; deep; kind; cordial; serious (of an illness); abundant

1

inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness

2

slowness; inertness; inability; lack of talent; dullness

2

still more; to say nothing of; not to mention; still less

1

to confide; to reveal; to disclose; to lay bare; to speak frankly; to open (one's heart)

3

one's station in life; one's personal history; one's circumstances; one's lot; one's destiny; one's future

2

everything

1

cannot; must not

2

sympathy; compassion; pity

2

feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection

1

to resemble; to look like; to be like; to be alike; to be similar; to take after

1

Kyoto (city, prefecture)

1

proper; appropriate; due; suitable

2

evidence; proof

1

to often be the case; to occur frequently; to be common; to be popular

2

law; rule; regulation; destiny; fate; karma

1

Tosa (former province located in present-day Kochi Prefecture)

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ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer

1

the times

1

woman who earns her living by entertaining with song, dance and playing the shamisen; geisha who sings at parties

1

songstress; diva

1

parenthood; parent or someone with children on the way (esp. an expecting mother); (of a fish) containing roe (eggs)

1

art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance

3

little girl; maiden; young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)

1

to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal

1

to bring someone along

1

in; on; at (place); as for; regarding

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breast; udder

2

birth; creation; formation

1

arranged; taken care of; settled; completed; finished

2

finally; at last; barely; narrowly; gradually; little by little

1

disease; -pathy

1

illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault

1

to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)

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