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Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale; greenish brown; having a beautiful voice

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strangulation; strangling

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to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)

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Germany

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tottering; staggering; reeling

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best regards; please take care of; please do

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tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well

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to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp

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with all one's strength; with all one's might

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to release; to let go; to free; to add (pieces of eggplant, potato, etc.) to water, broth, etc.

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blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe

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izakaya; Japanese bar that also serves various dishes and snacks

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preliminary inspection; having a look in advance; preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes); siding (on a house); clapboard

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lick; bottom card of the draw pile; (arch.) tasting (a nobleman's) medicine to see if it contains poison; (arch.) medicine taster

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luxury; extravagance; to live in luxury; to indulge oneself; lavish (use of something); abundant

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rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil

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mosquito larva; wriggler; maggot

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mosquito larva; wriggler; maggot

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sink (e.g. in a kitchen); cruising (e.g. taxi); strolling (entertainer, musician, etc.); washing area (in a Japanese-style bath); back-washing service (in a public bath); floating (something on water)

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locational advantage; advantageous position; products from the land (farm output, timber, minerals, etc.); land rent

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to disappear into; to slip into; to be lost in; to be mixed up with

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lined kimono

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joint together; opposite; facing

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waistband; belt; cloth girdle; obi

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young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony); young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute); younger partner in a homosexual relationship

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young man; youth; lad; servant boy; young shopboy

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commander-in-chief; Taishōgun; one of the eight gods of the koyomi

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catfish (esp. the Amur catfish, Silurus asotus); (arch.) earthquake

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catfish (esp. the Amur catfish, Silurus asotus); (arch.) earthquake

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Denroku

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comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery

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coach's name-use license (licence)

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every month; monthly; month by month

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thirty-first day of the month; thirty-one days

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last day of the month

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entertainment hall (for rakugo, manzai, magic, music, etc.); vaudeville theater (theatre); music hall

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to cease; to desist; to cut it out; to lay off (an activity); to drop (a subject) to abolish; to resign

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to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)

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review; rehearsal

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to hold (an event); to give (a dinner, party, etc.); to feel (sensation, emotion, call of nature, etc.); to show signs of

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amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute

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gidayū (type of reciting used in the puppet theater)

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man among men; man's man

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the other day; some days ago; recently; a day in the past

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to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize

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various matters; everything

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(acting as an) intermediate; mediation; employment office (Edo period)

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wicket gate; wooden door; entrance to an entertainment venue (i.e. sumo arena, etc.)

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to carry under the arm; to scoop up (liquid)

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to happen to pass by

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