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Takasaki (city in Gunma)

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Maebashi (city in Gunma)

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among the mountains

6

interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)

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marshy rice field or paddy

2

railroad; railway; rail transport

2

to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)

2

slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late

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it may be because

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woodman's hatchet

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Yamagata (city, prefecture); mountain shape; chevron; cone

10

scabbard; sheath; cap (on pen, brush, etc.); case; margin (between two prices); spread

10

birch (esp. Japanese white birch)

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relief; embossed carving; bringing to the fore; throwing something into relief

1

intelligence; cleverness; innate aptitude

1

bai ze (mythical Chinese animal able to understand human speech, having the body of a lion and eight eyes)

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quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money

6

something broad and flat; common; ordinary; low-ranking employee; freshman

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(giving) birth; childbirth; native of; product of; assets; property

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small; small-sized; small-scale; miniature

7

lovable

1

long metal chopsticks (for handling charcoal, esp. in a brazier); fire tongs

4

hinoki leaf; hiba false arborvitae (species of cypress, Thujopsis dolabrata); small ornamental false cypress (i.e. a variety of hinoki or a related species)

4

ash; ashes

6

average; leveling; levelling

4

rural beauty; rusticity; rustic beauty

4

sericulture; silkworm culture; silkworm raising

2

making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi

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harsh (taste, feeling, etc.); acrid; sharp (language, question, etc.); biting; nasty; gross

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wooden plate

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affected; smug; pompous; conceited; snobby; pretentious

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being newly swept; gathering silkworms from the egg paper

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feather; plume; wing; blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.); shuttlecock (in badminton); shuttlecock (in hanetsuki); arrow feathers

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broom

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feather duster

1

master of the tea ceremony; person with eccentric tastes

14

to like; to prefer

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head; chief; merit; strong point; superiority; major

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spinning machine

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deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid

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marsh; swamp; wetland; being hooked (on a video game, TV show, etc.)

6

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

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castle

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to grow; to spring up; to sprout; to cut (teeth)

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height; stature

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negative; minus

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basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage

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to take great care (in doing); to pay attention; to be careful

4

unmistakable; evident; genuine; authentic

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to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to set free; to release; to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)

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