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once more

2

Shimane prefecture (Chūgoku area)

1

straw raincoat

10

Gifu prefecture (Chūbu area)

1

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

2

Shiga prefecture (Kinki area)

1

Yasu

1

Shida

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driving off birds; procession held at the New Year to chase away the birds for the year, with children singing songs as the villagers walked from house to house; female street musician who wore a braided hat and carried a shamisen; street entertainer who appeared on New Year's eve and performed with a fan

2

Mie prefecture (Kinki area)

1

soft roe; milt; albino

1

eastern country; eastern provinces; Kanto provinces

2

Kuma

1

bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)

8

to settle down; to stay (for good); to stay long; to stay on

1

travellers' inn; stage inn

1

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

9

once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone

6

four tones (of Chinese)

1

apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal

4

first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface

1

to pause; to have a short intermission

1

natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary

2

these days; now; recently

4

to go by; to go past; to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to go indoors; to go into a room; to penetrate

3

economising; saving

1

end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)

2

short-tempered; quick-tempered; hasty

1

Ōsumi (former province located in the east of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture, including the Amami Islands)

2

sunny place; in the sun

1

Hyūga (former province located in present-day Miyazaki Prefecture); Hyūga (city)

1

coast; beach

5

end; verge; extremity; miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)

3

Japanese sea fig (Ficus superba var. japonica)

1

treetop; tip of a branch

9

to sit down

1

quiet; calm; easily; comfortably; distant; far-off

1

pentatonic scale

1

emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment

3

garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area

24

noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky

1

each locality; each place; each region

2

for a long time; since long ago; from childhood; bright and early; early in the morning

2

each house; every house; many houses

3

(Japanese) bantam

1

association; fellowship; change (of season, year, etc.)

1

toe

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Cochin (breed of chicken)

1

to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)

3

eternalness; forever unchanging; distant land over the sea; world of the dead

1