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vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology

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oden; dish of various ingredients, e.g. egg, daikon, potato, chikuwa, konnyaku, etc. stewed in soy-flavored dashi

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half; semi-; half-past; odd number; (arch.) unit of land area (595.8 m^2)

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to meet (by chance); to come across; to run across; to encounter; to happen upon

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rather than

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be; is

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every direction

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charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of

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about when; about what time; how soon

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I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...

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Michio

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the person heretofore mentioned; that person

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discussion; talk; tête-à-tête; conference

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ancient times (e.g. Heian and Nara periods in Japan); remote ages; early history; (nominal) retail price

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folk song; popular song

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rice-planting song; rice planters' song

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maximum; extreme; utmost

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to attract; to draw near; to charm; to attract; to have a convulsion

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a long time ago

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to scan; to look over

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natural features; topography; climate; spiritual features

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flies swarming at the beginning of summer

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large-scale

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harmful insect; noxious insect; vermin; pest

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noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky

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to look attractive; to look nice

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badness; evilness; bad; evil

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ancient records

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complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression

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a little over; a little more than; powerhouse; one of the biggest; upper (seismic intensity)

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unconsciousness; unconscious; involuntary; the unconscious (psychoanalysis)

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infection; contagion; becoming infected

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accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation

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by all means; at any cost; whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; on no account; by no means

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Ichirō

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wisdom; jnana (higher knowledge)

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slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)

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manly; brave; heroic

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Suō (former province located in the southeast of present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture)

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capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light); location of the Imperial Palace

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sappanwood (Caesalpinia sappan); sappanwood dye (red in colour); layered colour (light brown on the front, dark red beneath)

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rice-planting song; rice planters' song

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praise; tribute; inscription (on a painting)

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assembling (of people)

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perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility

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having in mind; happening to know of; idea

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triple feature (e.g. movie)

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seedling; young plant; rice seedling

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ceremonial; ritual; ritualistic; formal

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to plant; to grow; to insert; to transplant; to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent); to instill (idea, value, etc.)

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