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acting; performance

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novel; original; striking; strange; eccentric; fantastic

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contrast; antithesis; comparison

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to deepen; to heighten; to intensify

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loss (of assets, profit, etc.)

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actor; actress; player; performer

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seafood; products of the sea; marine products; fruits of the sea

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boy

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happiness and good fortune

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grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)

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only; nothing but

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one class; one set; a pair; a suite; a series

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ancient Shinto music and dancing

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lion dance; traditional dance performed by one or more dancers wearing a guardian lion costume

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high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine

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vice-minister (Meiji period); undersecretary

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to admire a person's courage; to approve of someone's ambition

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absurdity; contradiction; incoherence; irrelevance

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absurdity; contradiction; incoherence; irrelevance

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reply; answer; response

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merely for form's sake

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compilation for the emperor; emperor's literary production

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straight line

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ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml

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possession; ownership; Tibet; Tibetan people

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image; figure; figure; form; image

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often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly

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and; although; but

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Cape jasmine (Gardenia jasminoides); Cape jessamine; gardenia

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particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty

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preliminary dyeing; bottoming

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worldly affairs; public affairs

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feeble joke; bad pun

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to roll around laughing; to fold up; to hold one's sides with laughter

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fresh taste; novelty; originality; freshness

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Minase

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to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate

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imperial villa; royal villa; detached palace

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versification; tanka poetry

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kaki; Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki)

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Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)

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meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; in contrast

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discrimination; historical school of poetic thought; attachment; distractions

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innocence; insentient (i.e. plants, inanimate objects, etc.); free from obstructive thoughts; to pester someone (for cash, etc.)

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deviation; departure; omission

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disposition

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to take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected

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visit to a temple or shrine; worship; pilgrimage

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leggings

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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

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